A Show of Force

A Show of Force
DVD cover of the film
Directed byBruno Barreto
Screenplay byEvan Jones
John Strong
Based onMurder Under Two Flags
by Anne Nelson
Produced byJohn Strong
Starring
Edited byHenry Richardson
Music byGeorges Delerue
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 11, 1990 (1990-05-11)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million[1]
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 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.[2] 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.[3]

Cast

Actor Role
Amy Irving Kate Melendez
Andy García Luis Angel Mora
Lou Diamond Phillips Jesus Fuentes
Robert Duvall Howard
Kevin Spacey Frank Curtin
Erik Estrada Machado
Jorge Castillo Nestor Chavez
Lupe Ontiveros Pepita

See also

References

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  2. ^ Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia (2016). Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s. McFarland. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-4766-1411-3. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  3. ^ Rivera Sánchez, Maricarmen. "El parque de Canóvanas se llamará ahora Parque de Lomas [Park in Canóvanas to be renamed Parque de Lomas]". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish).


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