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Under Fire
The film tells the gripping, emotional story of a pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua who find themselves under fire from both sides.
20 November 1948, New York City, New York, USA
1935
5 August 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 August 1937, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 August 1945, Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA
March 11, 2015
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.May 20, 2003
Means well but it is fatally confused.May 24, 2003
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.February 26, 2005
above-average battle movieMay 07, 2011
A timely political drama, well acted by Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman.June 24, 2006
A thrilling film, with a head, a heart, and muscle.July 23, 2003
Presents a fascinating look at a journalist caught up in the tensions and violence in Nicaragua's civil warOctober 23, 2004
This is the kind of movie that almost always feels phony, but "Under Fire" feels real.October 19, 2016
Superior thinking man's complicated political action drama.March 26, 2009
Director Roger Spottiswode, after a couple of earlier actioners, has great potential.January 03, 2012
[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.