Under Fire
by Roger Spottiswoode
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Actor: Alma Martinez, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Nick NolteDirector: Roger Spottiswoode
Cinematographer: John Alcott
Editor: Mark Conte
Producer: Anna Roth
Producer: Edward Teets
Producer: Jonathan T. Taplin
Writer: Clayton Frohman
Writer: Ron Shelton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Under Fire
DVD Review: Great movie, dreadful transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a wonderful movie, and I strongly recommend it, but DO NOT rely on this dvd transfer to deliver everything that the film has to offer. It looks and sounds terrible. Avoid til Blu-ray arrives.DVD Review: EXCELENT SERVICE
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a good product and service, but it took too long for me to receive the picture. Is there any other way to get the products faster?DVD Review: Under Fire
Summary: 5 Stars
An engrossing, still timely drama about the role of the news media in covering violent political conflicts, "Fire" asks us to consider the ethics of objectivity, dramatizing the political transformation of a man who, in an act of journalistic deception, chooses to choose sides. Nolte is excellent as Price, the rugged veteran who experiences a change of heart behind rebel lines, while Cassidy, Hackman, and Ed Harris, playing a steely soldier-for-hire, add further fuel to this "Fire" with gutsy supporting roles. A tense object lesson in the dangers of eyewitness reporting.DVD Review: TOKYO JO
Summary: 2 Stars
WELL, GREAT ACTING, GREAT MUSIC, GREAT COSTUMES. TO BAD THEY RUINED THE MOVIE BY MAKING IT A PRO MARXIST MOVIE. I HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME ENJOYING A MOVIE IN WHICH THE STARS ARE IN LOVE WITH A MARXIST REVOLUTION.
DVD Review: Under Fire
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a complicated, convoluted political thriller combined with a love affair between the three stars. Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy. There is action but the action punctuates the plot and character development as opposed to being the point of the film. It was made in the mid'80's and you need to know it plays like a mid '80's film instead of the explosion every five minutes mentality of today.
Description of Under Fire
Under Fire is a savvy political thriller of journalists in war-torn Nicaragua circa 1979. Clayton Frohman and Ron Shelton's (Bull Durham) script follows ace photojournalist Russell Price (Nick Nolte, in a key marquee performance) from the jungles of Africa to the Central American boiling point. Along with the usual band of fellow journalists, Price finds himself involved in a love triangle with Claire (Joanna Cassidy in her best role) and Alex Grazier (Gene Hackman, perfect again), who believes he's one career-making story from a lofty news anchor position. In Nicaragua, Price finds his own deadly mission: to photograph an unknown rebel leader.Although the setup is traditional, Roger Spottiswoode's film feels as alive and vital as the best of the genre. Showing his ambiguity for the lives he shoots, Price is just as friendly with the impoverished in Africa as with an icy mercenary, Oates (Ed Harris in a role the polar opposite of his breakthrough performance in The Right Stuff the same year). On one level, Oates and Price are simply Americans doing their jobs in a foreign land. But soon Price has a change of heart. Blessed by a splendid final-act action sequence that is unforced and emotionally charged, the film is stuffed with color and energy, a good dose of which is supplied by Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated score. --Doug Thomas
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