Release Date | 1988-12-08 |
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Runtime | 128 minutes |
Genres | Drama, Thriller, Crime, History, Mystery |
Stars | Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey |
Directors | Juliet Taylor, Howard Feuer, Robert F. Colesberry, Gretchen Rau, Aude Bronson-Howard |
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.