# Salvador (1986)

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**Runtime**: 123 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, War
**Directed by**: Oliver Stone
**Written by**: Oliver Stone, Rick Boyle
**Starring**: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo, Tony Plana

> *Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

El Salvador. 1980. Gunfire.
A burned-out photojournalist hunts for his girlfriend amid a nation’s brutal crack-up. Caught between murderous factions, he scrambles to survive.
Stone's hyperkinetic moralizing finds a queasy fit.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, paranoid, raw

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