Murder in Mississippi (1990)
- Directed by
- Roger Young
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1964 during Freedom Summer, three civil rights activists in Mississippi are harassed and then disappear. The film shows their last weeks and the events that lead to their murder.
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What happens
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood as Chaney, and Josh Charles as Goodman. Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes. The film premiered on February 5, 1990, on NBC. As a historical docudrama, Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan and 1988's Mississippi Burning. Murder in Mississippi is the title of a 1965 Norman Rockwell painting depicting the same events. The painting is also known as Southern Justice. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Freedom Summer (2014)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Freedom Song (2000)
Selma (2014)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.