Under Fire (1983)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 2
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
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Movie Info
This gripping, emotional story of a roving photographer's transformation from a neutral artist with a camera to an involved human rights activist with a camera begins in Chad, travels to Nicaragua in the early 1980s, and ends when the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza takes off for the palm trees and beaches of Florida. Nick Nolte brilliantly interprets his role as the photographer Russell Price, and Joanna Cassidy is Claire, the radio journalist he meets while in Chad, along with her lover, Time
Oct 21, 1983 Limited
Sep 4, 2001
Vestron Video
Cast
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Nick Nolte
Russell Price -
Gene Hackman
Alex Grazier -
Joanna Cassidy
Claire Stryder -
Jean-Louis Trintigna...
Marcel Jazy -
Ed Harris
Oates -
Richard Masur
Hub Kittle -
René Enríquez
Somoza -
Alma Martinez
Isela -
Jenny Gago
Miss Panama -
Eloy Casados
Pedro -
Jorge Zepeda
Rafael -
Hamilton Camp
Regis Seydor -
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Oswaldo Doria
Boy Photographer -
Fernando Elizondo
Businessman -
Martin LaSalle
Commandante Cinco -
Ella Laboriel
Nightclub Singer -
Enrique Lucero
Prison Priest -
Holly Palance
Journalist -
Raul Picasso
Bassist -
Carlos Romano
Priest -
Andaluz Russell
Young Journalist -
Eric Valdez
Time Stringer -
Jonathan Zarzosa
Pianist -
Samuel Zarzosa
Drummer -
Raul Garcia
Waiter -
Enrique Beraza
Interrogating Office... -
Clay Wright
Helicopter Pilot -
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All Critics (16) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Director Roger Spottiswode, after a couple of earlier actioners, has great potential.
Top CriticA thrilling film, with a head, a heart, and muscle.
This is the kind of movie that almost always feels phony, but "Under Fire" feels real.
Means well but it is fatally confused.
[Spottiswoode] succeeds brilliantly in creating the chaotic last days of Somoza's government while at the same time incisively evaluating the moral dilemma faced by war correspondents.
A timely political drama, well acted by Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman.
above-average battle movie
Presents a fascinating look at a journalist caught up in the tensions and violence in Nicaragua's civil war
Spottiswoode captures the random terror of the war zone, the press corps's acute journalistic instinct for story and survival, and the appalling moral dilemmas that reporters must confront.
Audience Reviews for Under Fire
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Super Reviewer
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- Oates: I got more of a bit part here, but I'm not that good.
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- Claire Stryder: I have round heels.
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