Gone Girl vs Mississippi Burning

Gone Girl has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.7/10 for Mississippi Burning). Mississippi Burning is the shorter watch at 2h 8m compared with 2h 29m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2014). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Gone Girl posterGone Girl2014 VS Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988
Gone GirlMississippi Burning
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 7.7/10
Year20141988
Length2h 29m2h 8m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited States of America
DirectorDavid FincherAlan Parker
Main castNeil Patrick Harris, Sela Ward, Kim Dickens, Missi Pyle, Casey WilsonBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis

Gone Girl

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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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