Mississippi Burning vs Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 4.9/10 for Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough). Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2005). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988 VS Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough posterWild Things: Diamonds in the Rough2005
Mississippi BurningWild Things: Diamonds in the Rough
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 4.9/10
Year19882005
Length2h 8m1h 27m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorAlan ParkerJay Lowi
Main castBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen TobolowskyLinden Ashby, Claire Coffee, Brad Johnson, Eric Fleeks, Dina Meyer

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.

Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough

Two young women will stop at nothing for one to gain a $4 million inheritance of two priceless diamonds, while two detectives try to thwart their plans, but find complications abound.

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