Under Fire
“The first casualty of war is the truth.”
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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Cast
19 people
Nick Nolte
Russell Price
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Gene Hackman
Alex Grazier
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Joanna Cassidy
Claire
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Ed Harris
Oates
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
Marcel Jazy
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Amour
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Richard Masur
Hub Kittle
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Alma Martinez
Isela
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Undone
The Terror
René Enríquez
President Anastasio Somoza
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Hill Street Blues
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Hamilton Camp
Regis Seydor
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The Smurfs
DuckTales
Jenny Gago
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Eloy Casados
Pedro
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Martin LaSalle
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Roger Spottiswoode Director · Ron Shelton Screenplay Clayton Frohman Screenplay
Worldwide gross $5.7M · Budget $9.5M · United States release October 21, 1983
Box office
Budget
$9,500,000
Worldwide gross
$5,696,391
Gross vs. budget
0.6×
Production
Orion Pictures
Production · Studio
United States · Mexico
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Japanese · Spanish
Release dates
United States · October 21, 1983
Theatrical
Germany
November 11, 1983 · Theatrical
Greece
June 13, 1984 · Theatrical
Netherlands
November 22, 1984 · Theatrical
June 18, 2004 · Physical · DVD
November 28, 2007 · Physical · Blu ray
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