The Reivers
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
The Hollow
When a U.S. congressman's daughter passing through a small town in Mississippi dies in a mysterious triple homicide, a team of F.B.I. agents descends to investigate, the team's brilliant but jaded lead agent battling demons both past and present, as his beautiful, tough-as-nails partner tries to hold him and the case together. They find a struggling and corrupt sheriff's department, a shadowy and much-feared figure, who seems to be pulling all of the town's strings from his mansion on the edge of town and a local victim with a strange connection to a number of the town's most prominent figures.
The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Biloxi Blues
A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.
Remember the Sultana
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
Down in the Delta
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Ode to Billy Joe
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
Deep Blues
This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a barber shop, in big clubs. The film really captures the true faces of blues and shows us that this music had nothing to do with nostalgia or record company hypes. Documentary on the Delta blues.
Mississippi Masala
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Miss Firecracker
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.
A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
The Long, Hot Summer
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
The River Rat
On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it...
Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Tap Roots
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Life
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
The Help
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
My Dog Skip
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
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Mark Rydell
Director
Owen Bush
as
Pete Hyde
Raymond Guth
as
Uncle Ike
John McLiam
as
Van Tosch
Jackson Beals
as
Billy
Jeff Fahey
as
Darryl Everett
David Warshofsky
as
Principal Adam Markey
James Callis
as
Vaughn Killinger
Stanley Kramer
Director
Ned Glass
as
Doctor
Lawrence Dobkin
as
Editor
Herman Hack
as
Search Party Member
Theodore Bikel
as
Sheriff Max Muller
Mike Nichols
Director
Shirley Jordan
as
Additional Voice
Matthew Broderick
as
Eugene Morris Jerome
Michael Dolan
as
James J. Hennesey
Christopher Walken
as
Sgt. Toomey
Mackenzie Astin
as
Captain J. Walter Elliott / Private George Clarkson
Sean Astin
as
Narrator
Jim Cummings
as
Sergeant Alexander C. Brown / Sergeant William Fies
Barry W. Levy
as
Sergeant Joseph Stevens / Samuel C. Haines
Eugene Clark
as
Citizen 1
Philip Akin
as
Manager
Anne-Marie Johnson
as
Monica
Wesley Snipes
as
Will
Katherine McNamara
as
Becky Thatcher
Val Kilmer
as
Mark Twain
Joel Courtney
as
Tom Sawyer
Dan van Husen
as
Windy
Max Baer Jr.
Director
Joan Hotchkis
as
Anna 'Mama' Hartley
James Best
as
Dewey Barksdale
Sandy McPeak
as
Glenn 'Papa' Hartley
Ritchie Montgomery
as
Townie
Mira Nair
Director
Denzel Washington
as
Demetrius Williams
Tico Wells
as
Dexter Williams
Sarita Choudhury
as
Meena
Joe Seneca
as
Williben Williams
Victor Jory
as
Injun Joe
Harry Myers
as
Irate Churchgoer
Thomas Schlamme
Director
Tim Robbins
as
Delmount Williams
Scott Glenn
as
Mac Sam
Bert Remsen
as
Mr. Morton
Robert Fieldsteel
as
Tommy Turner
Samuel L. Jackson
as
Carl Lee Hailey
Sandra Bullock
as
Ellen Roark
Kiefer Sutherland
as
Freddie Lee Cobb
Matthew McConaughey
as
Jake Tyler Brigance
Robert Adler
as
Ambulance Driver
Joanne Woodward
as
Clara Varner
Bill Walker
as
Lucius
Tommy Lee Jones
as
Billy
Brian Dennehy
as
Doc Cole
Martha Plimpton
as
Jonsy
Betty Brown
as
1st Girl
Juanita Moore
as
Dancer
Barbara Pepper
as
New Year's Eve Cutie
Richard Long
as
Bruce Dabney
William Challee
as
Sergeant
Elmo Lincoln
as
Sergeant
Helen Mowery
as
(uncredited)
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
as
Biscuit
Barry Shabaka Henley
as
Pokerface
Eddie Murphy
as
Rayford Gibson
Obba Babatundé
as
Willie Long
Tate Taylor
Director
Jessica Chastain
as
Celia Foote
Bryce Dallas Howard
as
Hilly Holbrook
Emma Stone
as
Skeeter Phelan
Luke Wilson
as
Dink
Diane Lane
as
Ellen Morris
Kevin Bacon
as
Jack Morris
Jordan Williams
as
Lt. Hartman
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