Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia...
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- James WoodsRichard Boyle
- Jim BelushiDoctor Rock
- Michael MurphyAmbassador Thomas Kelly
- John SavageJohn Cassady
- Elpidia CarrilloMaria
- Tony PlanaMajor Maximilliano Casanova
- Colby ChesterJack Morgan
- Cynthia GibbCathy Moore
- Will MacMillanColonel Bentley Hyde Sr.
- Valerie WildmanPauline Axelrod
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- Oliver StoneDirector
- Oliver StoneWriter
- Rick BoyleWriter
- Robert RichardsonDirector of Photography
- Georges DelerueOriginal Music Composer
- Claire SimpsonEditor
- Oliver StoneProducer
- Gerald GreenProducer
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