Tracy Letts
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Yeah, no, I don't think it's going in.
There's not a lot of accountability for the LAPD in this movie.
And we've seen in the years since that LAPD could have used a little more scrutiny, perhaps.
It's not a very good movie.
It's directed by Bruno Barreto, who was a Brazilian filmmaker who made... I think he made Dona Flora and Her Two Husbands.
He was married to Amy Irving at the time, who lives in my little town where I live in New York.
They made this movie together, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, early fat Kevin Spacey.
It's a thriller based on a real-life case in which undercover American agents framed Puerto Rican political activists as terrorists then murdered them.
So it's based on a true story.
She's a TV reporter and Duvall is her TV news editor.
Almost all of his scenes take place in the news office.