Action-Under Fire

Beta Tape Under Fire Action/Drama…VB5033..Color..128 min…Starring…Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Richard Masur and Ed Harris… Under Fire, a powerful drama detailing the days of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua, focuses on three journalists, Nick Nolte (48hrs, Cannery Row), Academy Award-winner Gene Hackman(The French Connection) and Golden Globe Award winner Joanna Cassidy(Tv s Buffalo Bill) in the grip of a disintegrating society on the verge of chaos. One of the year s most highly acclaimed films, it has been called "Sharp and absorbing" Nolte, Cassidy, and Hackman portray Russel Price, Claire Stryder, and Alex Grazier, three journalists who face both personal and professional conflicts in war-torn Nicaragua. To Alex Grazier, Nicatragua is simply another assignment. For Price and Stryder, though the was and its casualties become an almost unbearable addition to the bloody carnage they have already witnessed together in Chad. Slowly their attitudes shift almost imperceptibly until Price makes a decision that intimately draws all of them into the chain of events, with both positive and tragic consequences.