A Show of Force

A Show of Force
DVD cover of the film
Directed by Bruno Barreto
Produced by John Strong
Screenplay by Evan Jones
John Strong
Based on Murder Under Two Flags
by Anne Nelson
Starring
Music by Georges Delerue
Edited by Henry Richardson
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • May 11, 1990 (1990-05-11)
Running time
89 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $152,982 (USA)

A Show of Force is a 1990 American thriller drama film directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on events and theories surrounding the Maravilla Hill case in Puerto Rico adapted from Anne Nelson's book, Murder Under Two Flags.

Plot

In 1978, Kate Melendez (Amy Irving) is a television news reporter who investigates the mysterious deaths of two radical Puerto Rican activists. The government claims they were terrorists while others claim the two were merely student activists. Despite threats to her own life, Melendez investigates the deaths, gradually leading her to conclude that undercover American agents were responsible for framing the activists as terrorists, and then murdering them.

Cast

ActorRole
Amy IrvingKate Melendez
Andy GarcíaLuis Angel Mora
Lou Diamond PhillipsJesus Fuentes
Robert DuvallHoward
Kevin SpaceyFrank Curtin
Erik EstradaMachado
Jorge CastilloNestor Chavez
Lupe OntiverosPepita

See also


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