Double Jeopardy vs Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.6/10 for Double Jeopardy). Double Jeopardy is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 1999). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Double Jeopardy
Mississippi Burning| Double Jeopardy | Mississippi Burning | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 1999 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 2h 8m |
| Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Bruce Beresford | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Bruce Greenwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Gillian Barber, Bruce Campbell | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky |
Synopsis
Double Jeopardy
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.
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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