Now Streaming

Watch Now

Salvador (1986)

R04/23/1986Drama, Thriller, War2h 3m
  • User
    Score

Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia...

Overview

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    James Woods

    Richard Boyle

  2. Cast 1

    Jim Belushi

    Doctor Rock

  3. Cast 1

    Michael Murphy

    Ambassador Thomas Kelly

  4. Cast 1

    John Savage

    John Cassady

  5. Cast 1

    Elpidia Carrillo

    Maria

  6. Cast 1

    Tony Plana

    Major Maximilliano Casanova

  7. Cast 1

    Colby Chester

    Jack Morgan

  8. Cast 1

    Cynthia Gibb

    Cathy Moore

  9. Cast 1

    Will MacMillan

    Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr.

With almost all things Oliver Stone...it gets political, and because of that you have people reviewing the politics and NOT the movie. Hate it or love it because of the politics... ...and politically I agree with the message in Salvador, but I'm going to try to keep all of that out of this and too the side. However, I do want to mention that the film dramatizes a few stories that should have gotten better coverage in the US. Moving on, though, this is not unlike Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...if it went entirely dark and realistic. You have a journalist and his buddy in a Hawaiian T-Sh...