Turning Point of Race Relations in the USA!

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2011)

This is a must see film. Despite some events being left out or distorted, it is in fact, based on a true story.
Three civil rights workers are murdered by white supremacists or KKK members. One Mississippi night and that their bodies yet to be found. Since the race relations in the USA, especially in the South needed to be sorted out.
A concerned President in the USA, Kennedy I believe. Asked J Edgar Hoover to seen FBI agents to investigate. The town is afraid to talk and that if some did, they would be targeted and killed.
But the two main protagonists, by-the book Ward a Northerner(Wilem Dafoe), and down to earth ex-Southern sheriff Anderson(Gene Hackman). Butt heads over what they need to do. Anderson wants a quiet investigation and wants to do it by at times, charming the people as he knows how to deal with them. While Ward wants over hundreds of FBI agents in as that will only make the investigation worse in the point of view in Anderson.
The main antagonists, among them, the town mayor played by R Lee Ermey. Stephen Tobowski, a very good and very violent, mean Michael Rooker. Racist sheriff Gailord Sartain and his even more, mean deputy Brad Dourif. Who also abuses his wife played by scene-stealer Francis McDormand. Whom she and Anderson have a thing for each other.
Really it is where the turning point of race relations came about. Sure we have come a long way. But also, IMHO we have a long way to go...AND BEYOND!