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Murder in Mississippi

Murder in Mississippi (1990)

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Release Date: Feb 5, 1990 Wide

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Made for television, Murder in Mississippi covers the same historical ground that was fictionalized in the theatrical film Mississippi Burning (89). The film recounts the murders by the Ku Klux Klan of three civil rights workers in 1964. Rather than detail the subsequent FBI investigation, the plotline follows the life of one of the white murder victims, Mickey Schwerner (Tom Hulce), who gave up a comfortable lifestyle in the North to struggle alongside African-American freedom fighters in the

Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

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Ridiculous screenplay is amplified by ridiculous acting. Dreadful film whose moral we've otherwise been force-fed a hundred times before, anyway.

April 26, 2010
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