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Overview

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Director:
Oliver Stone
Writers:
Oliver Stone (written by) and
Rick Boyle (writer)
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Release Date:
23 April 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
Based on a true story. more
Plot:
A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
An emotional entry into an American nightmare more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

James Woods ... Richard Boyle

James Belushi ... Doctor Rock

Michael Murphy ... Ambassador Thomas Kelly

John Savage ... John Cassady
Elpidia Carrillo ... María (as Elpedia Carrillo)
Tony Plana ... Major Maximiliano 'Max' Casanova

Colby Chester ... Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst

Cynthia Gibb ... Cathy Moore (as Cindy Gibb)
Will MacMillan ... Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr.

Valerie Wildman ... Pauline Axelrod
José Carlos Ruiz ... Archbishop Romero
Jorge Luke ... Colonel Julio Figueroa

Juan Fernández ... Army Lieutenant
Salvador Sánchez ... Human Rights Leader
Rosario Zúñiga ... Human Rights Assistant
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Outpost: Salvador (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
123 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Hemdale Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Spoilers: Kathy's murder is based on a true event that happened in El Salvador, when four American nuns were raped and murdered. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The position of the gun in the red-shirted man's hand changes from lowered to 90 degrees with his body. more
Quotes:
Richard Boyle: Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky? more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Into the Valley of Death (2001) (V) more
Soundtrack:
El Campecino more

FAQ

What eventually happened to Rick Boyle?
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21 out of 25 people found the following comment useful:-
An emotional entry into an American nightmare, 1 September 2004
Author: editor-133 from United States

Having seen this movie more than ten times, over the last decade and one half, it as taken on many shades of meaning, but it continues to show how the more things change the more they stay the same. The reporter's sense of gathering news seems to be one of self-sacrifice and a search for truth however, the director shows how the American reporter possesses a quixotic sense of right and wrong that is overwhelmed by self-interest and self-indulgence not unlike the American public. He is unable to report with the clarity of a John Reed. Other points of interest are the visuals of the local life of peasants, who just want to live. They are shown to be no different than the peasants of Chile or Vietnam. Contrasting this life is the ruling elite that manipulates the meaning of the simple needs of the peasants into an ideology that threatens the middle class and the business interests that exploit the resources of this third world country. When the environment becomes so intolerable that the peasants begin to revolt, the forces of the ruling elite call on the American military might to help quell the rebellion. Here we discover the atrocities that become the daily part of life and bring the audience emotions out of its dispassionate viewpoint into one that feels the helplessness of a beaten people.

It seems to me that the director was more into making a movie than selling tickets. For this we are grateful. This movie is as fresh with insight and meaning as it was when it was released. Dr. Zim Robert

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