Mississippi Burning vs Perfect Stranger

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 5.8/10 for Perfect Stranger). Perfect Stranger is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2007). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988 VS Perfect Stranger posterPerfect Stranger2007
Mississippi BurningPerfect Stranger
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 5.8/10
Year19882007
Length2h 8m1h 49m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorAlan ParkerJames Foley
Main castBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen TobolowskyHalle Berry, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Willis, Gerry Becker, Gary Dourdan

Synopsis

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.

Perfect Stranger

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

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