Tuesday, April 18, 2006


TITLE: Mississippi Burning
YEAR :1988
DIRECTOR: Alan Parker
PRODUCER Robert F. Colesberry
MAIN STARS : Gene Hackman
Willem Dafoe
Frances McDormand
REFERENCES: Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists during the 60s. They seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white.

The film is inspired by the murder of voting rights activists J. E. Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman.

MY REVIEW

well I can't tell you much ... the referrence speaks for itself