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Rated: R; Genres: Drama, War; With: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen; Distributor: MGM
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By Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

These DVDs capture the precise moments before and after Oliver Stone became ''Oliver Stone''; as such, they are useful correctives to the myth. The little-remembered Salvador is agitprop of a passionate, scabrously comic order, with James Woods playing real-life gonzo journo Richard Boyle carousing his way through the terrors of the U.S. involvement in El Salvador. The director's commentary offers Stone waxing semi-profound on various sociopolitical issues, but a tart making-of documentary makes the better case for what Stone calls a ''renegade'' film -- and the deleted scenes contain an astounding orgy-and-exposition sequence that proves how far the director was willing to push.


Posted Jun 15, 2001
 

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