Joy Ride vs Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.5/10 for Joy Ride). Joy Ride is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2001). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Joy Ride
Mississippi Burning| Joy Ride | Mississippi Burning | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2001 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 2h 8m |
| Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | John Dahl | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Jim Beaver, Steve Zahn, Rachel Singer, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky |
Synopsis
Joy Ride
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
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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