A Show of Force | |
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Directed by | Bruno Barreto |
Produced by | John Strong |
Screenplay by |
Evan Jones John Strong |
Based on |
Murder Under Two Flags by Anne Nelson |
Starring | |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Edited by | Henry Richardson |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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."
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 they were 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.