Salvador (Special Edition)
by Oliver Stone
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Actor: Elpidia Carrillo, James Belushi, James Woods, John Savage, Michael MurphyDirector: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Producer: Bob Morones
Producer: Brad H. Aronson
Producer: Derek Gibson
Producer: Gerald Green
Producer: John Daly
Writer: Rick Boyle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Salvador (Special Edition)
Movie Review: A betrayal to it's namesake
Summary: 1 Stars
If you are looking to watch a film to tell you the story of life in Salvador during war times... this is not a good choice. If you are looking for good acting... this is not a good choice. It you are looking to watch a demeaning, distant, ignorant, fake, and lame attmept at teling a story... then this is a film for you.
Watch Romero instead.
Summary of Salvador (Special Edition)
James Woods gives his "fullest, most humane, most emotional performance"(New York Magazine) to date in this "gritty, harrowing and bold thriller"(Gannett Newspapers). It's 1980. Young men, women and children are being brutally killed in a bloody civil war in El Salvador. It'sa horrific setting...but a perfect one for Richard Boyle, a sleazy war photojournalist whose careerneeds a jumpstart. Armed with his camera, Boyle joins the front lines in an attempt to capture atrocious-but-valuable images of pain and horror. But with each picture he takes, he catches a tragic side of humanity that ignites his long-buried compassion. And he unexpectedly discovers something thatwill change him forever: his soul. *1986 Actor (James Woods); Original ScreenplayDirector Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK) offers up this brilliant, engrossing true-life account of the violent civil war in El Salvador as told through the perspective of a has-been journalist trying for one last grasp at glory and finding the true horror of war. James Woods is freelance journalist Richard Boyle, who leaves San Francisco broke with his drug-addled, disc-jockey buddy (Jim Belushi) to cover the escalating conflict and hopefully return to his former stature as a war correspondent. What he finds is a nation torn by random violence, shifting ideologies, poverty, and the malevolent influence of the United States. Boyle tries to make sense of the brutality he sees while extracting his girlfriend from the war zone and saving his own life. Featuring John Savage (The Deer Hunter) as an earnest photojournalist, this is a fascinating and riveting depiction of the bloody strife that tore apart a nation and mirrored the disillusionment of the Vietnam era. --Robert Lane
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