IMDB:
7.7 (TMDb)
Released:
1988-12-08
Runtime:
128 min
Genres:
Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Countries:
United States of America
Director:
Alan Parker
Actors:
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker
Synopsis
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.
