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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night; MISSISSIPPI BURNING review
Description: In which the Mister joins me in reviewing MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988), with a screenplay by Chris Gerolmo, the film is directed by Alan Parker. In 1964, two FBI agents with clashing philosophies—a by-the-book idealist and a cynical former Southern sheriff—are sent to a small Mississippi town to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists. They find themselves stonewalled by a "conspiracy of silence" and violent hostility from the local authorities and the Ku Klux Klan, who go to extreme lengths to protect their secrets. As racial tensions reach a breaking point, the agents are forced to reconcile their differe...