Taglines: When a person murders, it’s a crime. When a government murders, it’s a cover-up.
A Show of Force movie storyline. Porto Rico, 1978. The Antillian autonomous US Commonwealth is divided by supporters of becoming a full US member state and independence activists, including a violent wing the governor labels as terrorists. Divorced reporter Kate Melendez, widow of independista lawyer Juan, gets in personal danger when she stumbles on a dark set-up.
Federal agent Jesus Fuentes officially infiltrated an operation to illegally broadcast a message on Constitution Day in which students Jorge Rey and Alfredo Ruiz are killed. He instigates kidnappings and murders, covered by powerful people. She’s scared away, but the senate appoints a special investigator, Luis Angel Mora.
A Show of Force is a 1990 American thriller drama film directed by Bruno Barreto and starring Amy Irving, Andy García, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey, Erik Estrada, Juan Fernández, Lupe Ontiveros, Priscilla Pointer and Hattie Winston. 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.”
A Show of Force (1990)
Directed by: Bruno Barreto
Starring: Amy Irving, Andy García, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall, Kevin Spacey, Erik Estrada, Juan Fernández, Lupe Ontiveros, Priscilla Pointer, Hattie Winston
Screenplay by: Evan Jones, John Strong
Production Design by: William J. Cassidy
Cinematography by: James Glennon
Film Editing by: Henry Richardson
Costume Design by: Kathryn Morrison
Set Decoration by: Rob McGraw
Art Direction by: William J. Durrell Jr.
Music by: Georges Delerue
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: May 11, 1990
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