A Show of Force

A Show of Force

Infobox Film
name = A Show of Force


caption =
director = Bruno Barreto
producer = John Strong
writer = Anne Nelson (book)
Evan Jones (screenplay)
John Strong (screenplay)
starring = Amy Irving
Andy Garcia
Lou Diamond Phillips
Robert Duvall
Erik Estrada
music = Georges Delerue
cinematography =
editing = Henry Richardson
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = May 11, 1990
runtime = 89 min.
country =
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:44527
imdb_id = 0100606

"A Show of Force" is a 1990 thriller, 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 the were are 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

ee also

*Cinema of Puerto Rico
*List of films set in Puerto Rico

External links

*imdb title | id=0100606 | title=A Show Of Force


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