<P> Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker . The script by Chris Gerolmo is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney , Goodman , and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi . The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County , Mississippi . The investigation is met with hostility and backlash by the town 's residents , local police , and the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) . </P>
<P> Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker . The script by Chris Gerolmo is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney , Goodman , and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi . The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County , Mississippi . The investigation is met with hostility and backlash by the town 's residents , local police , and the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) . </P>
where did the movie mississippi burning take place
where did the movie mississippi burning take place
fictional Jessup County , Mississippi
fictional Jessup County , Mississippi