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.
Acting
James Woods somehow makes a disaster human sympathetic.
Direction
Stone before the polish—raw, angry, barely controlled.
Cinematography
16mm grain that feels like you developed it in a war zone.
Director
Oliver Stone
James Woods
Richard Boyle
Jim Belushi
Doctor Rock
Michael Murphy
Ambassador Thomas Kelly
John Savage
John Cassady
Elpidia Carrillo
Maria
Tony Plana
Major Maximilliano Casanova
Colby Chester
Jack Morgan
Cynthia Gibb
Cathy Moore
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Mexico with a $4 million budget; Stone smuggled the 16mm film back personally to avoid customs issues.
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