Reviewed in Issue 51 (Aug 2001) of Widescreen Review
| Studio | MGM Home Entertainment |
| Catalog Number | 1002045 |
| MPAA Rating | R |
| Rating Reason | NA |
| Retail Price | $24.98 |
| DVD Type | Single Side, Dual Layer (DVD9) |
| Running Time | 123 |
| Release Date | 06/05/01 |
| Theatrical Year | 1985 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Oliver Stone |
| Screenplay | Subscribers only |
| Story | Subscribers only |
| Music | Subscribers only |
| Cinematography | Subscribers only |
| Stars | James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, Elpedia Carrillo, Tony Plana, Colby Chester & John Savage |
| Aspect Ratio | Subscribers only |
| Measured Ratio | Subscribers only |
| DVD Soundtrack | Dolby Digital 5.1Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Subtitles | Subscribers only |
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Subscribe FreeNot only giving us a glimpse of the carnage suffered during the bloody uprising in 1980s El Salvador, this semi-biographical film shows us the evolution of a man from that of a parasitic photojournalist to a compassionate human being. Richard Boyle (Woods) needs something big to get his war photo-correspondent career moving once again. He chooses to chronicle the atrocities happening in the tiny country of El Salvador by joining the front lines. His initial objective is to submit the most painfully tragic photographs imaginable to illustrate the civil war. But soon, Boyle
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