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Kevin Droney (written by)
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22 October 1995 (USA)
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Helen McNulty is a journalist struggling to regain control of her life a year after she was abducted and tortured in Central America...
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Superb perfomance of vanessa redgrave and Raul julia on a political current important problem : Tortur survivors
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Raul Julia | ... | Tomas Ramirez |
 | Laura Dern | ... | Helen McNulty |
 | Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Anna Lenke |
 | Cliff Gorman | ... | Nick the Greek |
| Sarita Choudhury | ... | Myrna |
 | Jay O. Sanders | ... | Jan Talbeck |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... | Rob Rubenstein |
| L. Scott Caldwell | ... | Cerises |
| Falconer Abraham | ... | Kouadio |
| Von Flores | ... | Minh |
| Miguel Fernández | ... | Captain Alonso Delacrux |
 | Carlo Rota | ... | Sergeant Manuel Ortega |
| James Kidnie | ... | Secret Police Agent |
 | Tedd Dillon | ... | Man at Train Station |
| Ángel Jara | ... | Torturer #1 |
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Ramirez
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Rated R for depictions of torture, and some sexuality.
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113 min
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Final film appearance by Raul Julia; he died the year before its release.
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Errors in geography: The train that Raul Julia is on is VIA Rail, a Canadian only rail company but the police officers in the station have American flag patches on their uniforms.
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Referenced in "Showbiz Today: (1995-10-21)" (1995)
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In addition to the excellent performance of Vanessa Redgrave and the deceased Raúl Julia, the value and significance of this film is that it shows, extremely close to reality, the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Syndrome of "torture survivors>", the modern denomination of those that been primary or secondary subjects in the widespread use of torture around the world. This film is so dramatically close to real cases experienced by the Danish IRC (international Recovery center for Torture survivors) that it will impress both who work with torture survivors and those really looking for suspense, unexpected ending snd superb performance of Raúl Julia and Vanessa Redgrave. Honestly a film worth to buy and keep in the same class as My Neigbors son and a few others.