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.

• Orion Pictures
• Frederick Zollo Productions
• Gene Hackman
• Willem Dafoe
• Frances McDormand
• Brad Dourif
• R. Lee Ermey
• Gailard Sartain
• Stephen Tobolowsky
• Michael Rooker