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...Mississippi Burning, Orion Pictures' $15 million drama about the FBI's search for the murderers of Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, has arrived with critical trumpets leading the way and bitter controversy in its wake. It has already won National Board of Review citations for best picture, best actor (Gene Hackman) and best supporting actress (Frances McDormand) -- prizes the film may duplicate on Academy Award night. For Mississippi Burning is made to Oscar's order: a white-heat yarn that illuminates, with fiery rhetoric at a lightning pace, one crucial chapter in American history...
MISSISSIPPI BURNING Historical fact, the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964, triggers a fervent historical fiction. Gene Hackman is canny and powerful as an FBI agent tracking the killers in director Alan Parker's angry, headlong film...
MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become caught up in the civil rights movement. Director Alan Parker powerfully evokes a time and place...
MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become caught up in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...
MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become entrenched in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...