High Crimes vs Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.4/10 for High Crimes). High Crimes is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2002). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.
High Crimes
Mississippi Burning| High Crimes | Mississippi Burning | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.4/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 2h 8m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Carl Franklin | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Michael Shannon, Jim Caviezel, Amanda Peet, Emilio Rivera, Adam Scott | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky |
Synopsis
High Crimes
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
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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