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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A hard-edged Central American war-journalism thriller with compromised reporters, volatile street-level danger, and the same urgent sense that personal loyalties cannot stay separate from political violence.
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Why this pick
Matches Salvador’s morally bruising view of a journalist caught inside a collapsing country, balancing chaotic reporting, friendship under pressure, and devastating political reality.
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Why this pick
Its tense, unsparing investigation into U.S. involvement and state repression echoes Salvador’s anger, immediacy, and distrust of official narratives, while keeping the human stakes central.
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Why this pick
Another volatile foreign-correspondent story, driven by a flawed observer, dangerous attraction, and an increasingly claustrophobic political atmosphere rather than clean-cut heroics.
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Why this pick
A cynical reporter’s perspective, romantic entanglement, and covert foreign intervention make this a more controlled but similarly morally charged companion to Salvador.
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01 / THE STORY
Veteran photojournalist Richard Boyle (James Woods) has been taking his camera to the world's trouble spots for over 20 years. While he does good work, Boyle's fondness for booze and drugs, and his colossal arrogance, have given him a reputation that's left him practically unemployable. One morning, he finds that his girlfriend has abandoned him, taking their child with her. Broke and with no immediate prospects, Boyle and his buddy, Doctor Rock (Jim Belushi), an out-of-work disc jockey, head to El Salvador, where Boyle is convinced that he can scrounge some lucrative freelance work amidst the nation's political turmoil. However, when Boyle and Rock witness the execution of a student by government troops just as they enter the country, it becomes clear that this war is more serious than they were expecting. After he asks a soldier for a general he met during the Football War, he and Rock and taken to him in a school-turned-barracks where both discuss the situation and he learns that the army is supplied by the United States. Feeling that El Salvador is a disaster starting to happen, Boyle eventually decides that it's time to get out, but he's reunited with an old flame named María (Elpidia Carrillo) and her two children (one of whom is his), and he doesn't want to leave her behind.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Richard Boyle
Jack Morgan
Cathy Moore
Human Rights Leader
Doctor Rock
Ambassador Thomas Kelly
John Cassady
Major Maximilliano Casanova
