Bordertown vs Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.3/10 for Bordertown). Bordertown is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2007). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bordertown
Mississippi Burning| Bordertown | Mississippi Burning | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.3/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 52m | 2h 8m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | United States of America | United States of America |
| Director | Gregory Nava | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sônia Braga, Kate del Castillo, Julio Cesar Cedillo | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky |
Synopsis
Bordertown
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan…
Mississippi Burning
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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