Mississippi Burning vs The Manchurian Candidate
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.5/10 for The Manchurian Candidate). Mississippi Burning is the shorter watch at 2h 8m compared with 2h 9m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2004). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mississippi Burning
The Manchurian Candidate| Mississippi Burning | The Manchurian Candidate | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2004 |
| Length | 2h 8m | 2h 9m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Alan Parker | Jonathan Demme |
| Main cast | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky | Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight |
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.
The Manchurian Candidate
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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