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Under Fire

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A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. As the Samoza power base falls, they face dilemmas concerning their relationship with each other and their loss of professional objectivity.
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Pauline Kael The New Yorker 09/13/2023
Spottiswoode doesn’t have the wild, low cunning that the great scenes in Peckinpah’s films have -- he doesn’t spook us. But he does everything short of that. In its sheer intelligence and craft this is a brilliant movie. Go to Full Review Variety Staff Variety 03/26/2009
Director Roger Spottiswode, after a couple of earlier actioners, has great potential. Go to Full Review Geoff Andrew Time Out 06/24/2006
A thrilling film, with a head, a heart, and muscle. Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 03/05/2022
3.5/4
Anyone who (like me) is a sucker for '80s political thrillers set in troubled foreign lands will find this a must-watch, in the same class as The Killing Fields, Missing, Salvador, and The Year of Living Dangerously. Go to Full Review Octavi Marti El Pais (Spain) 09/25/2019
Under Fire manages to transcend its fate to be an honest reflection about the gaze and point of view. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal 06/24/2019
3.5/5
An incendiary film that transforms the pipe-dream assumption that Americans only intervene to do good into a pipe bomb. The less-interesting love triangle is a delivery system for a blunt, effective observation: War's only objective truth is death. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Roger Spottiswoode

Director

Nick Nolte

Russell Price

Joanna Cassidy

Claire

Gene Hackman

Alex Grazier

Ed Harris

Oates

Alma Martinez

Isela

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Synopsis A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. As the Samoza power base falls, they face dilemmas concerning their relationship with each other and their loss of professional objectivity.
Director
Roger Spottiswoode
Producer
Jonathan T. Taplin
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Lions Gate Films
Rating
R
Genre
Drama, War
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 21, 1983, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 1, 2017
Runtime
2h 8m
Sound Mix
Surround
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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