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...personalized portraits of his characters and highly-polished production Yet while the State Department has issued a formal statement condemning the premise behind the movie, no one has yet tried to challenge it in court. The story is based upon the disappearance of a young American writer. Charlie Horman '64, who was living in Chile when the Allende government was over-thrown in 1973 Immediately following the revolution, Horman's father (Jack Lemmon '47) travels to Chile and, with Sissy Spacek, who plays Charlie Horman's wife, searches for his missing...
...intertwining themes in the movie center around the search for Charlie Horman and the relationship between the stuffy, Christian Scientists Lemmon, and the freewheeling, impertinent Spacek. A devout, almost chauvinistic patriot when he first comes to Chile, spouting idioms attesting to the greatness of the American Way, Lemmon slowly hardens to the cold reality of the American Way abroad, as he learns that the U.S. government may have been responsible for not only the revolution itself, but for his own son's death as well...
...essentials, however, family and friends say that the movie is honest. "It's an excellent dramatization of my book," declares Hauser. "It is true in spirit, but not precisely accurate in each and every detail." The elder Horman, who has spent the past eight years building up his case, brought suit against eleven Government officials in 1977, claiming, among other things, negligence and wrongful death. Most counts were dismissed on procedural grounds. Horman withdrew the rest since he was unable to get some classified documents that he believed would be conclusive. "They're desperate," he says...
...Freedom of Information Act, which require some explanation. One, a cable from Davis to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is dated Oct. 4, 1973, and recounts neighbors' descriptions of Charles' arrest and an eyewitness's report of his detention by the military. Yet when Edmund Horman arrived in Santiago on Oct. 5, he was told by the U.S. Ambassador that his son was probably in hiding. Other documents raise similar puzzles...
...approaching proof, however, and the State Department is outraged by the film's thesis. It has taken the film seriously enough to issue an unusual three-page statement disputing I its major points. After an eight-year investigation, it said, "no light was shed upon the circumstances of [Horman's] death and little upon the circumstances of his disappearance...