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A Show of Force

1990 film by Bruno Barreto

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.

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Plot

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.[2] 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.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    "AFI|Catalog".
  2. [2]
    Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia (2016). Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s. McFarland. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-4766-1411-3. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  3. [3]
    Rivera Sánchez, Maricarmen. "El parque de Canóvanas se llamará ahora Parque de Lomas [Park in Canóvanas to be renamed Parque de Lomas]". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish).


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