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Mississippi Burning (1988): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 drama, crime, mystery film directed by Alan Parker. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, 65 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 78 while Metacritic critics give it 65, a gap of 13 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 8 of 111 films from 1988 in our catalog and number 126 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain.

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