1964. When America was at war with itself.
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.
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Gene HackmanAgent Rupert Anderson
- Willem DafoeAgent Alan Ward
- Frances McDormandMrs. Pell
- Brad DourifDeputy Clinton Pell
- R. Lee ErmeyMayor Tilman
- Gailard SartainSheriff Stuckey
- Stephen TobolowskyTownley
- Michael RookerFrank Bailey
- Pruitt Taylor VinceLester Cowens
- Badja DjolaAgent Monk
Crew
- Alan ParkerDirector
- Chris GerolmoScreenplay
- Peter BiziouDirector of Photography
- Trevor JonesOriginal Music Composer
- Gerry HamblingEditor
- Robert F. ColesberryProducer
- Frederick ZolloProducer
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