Carla

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Actors: Scott Glenn , Robert Carlyle , Gary Lewis , Stewart Preston , Richard Loza , Alicia Devine , Salvador Espinoza , Anne Marie Timoney , Pamela Turner , Subash Singh Pall , Louise Goodall , Andy Townsley , Oyanka Cabezas , Greg Friel , Margaret McAdam

Director: Ken Loach

IMDB Rate: 6.8 out of 10 (1385 votes)

Plot Summary:1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed shes suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and to help her face her past. Once home, Carlas nightmarish memories take over, and Carla and George are thrown into the thick of the US war against the Sandinistas. A mystery develops over where Carlas boyfriend is, and the key to his whereabouts may be Carlas friend Bradley, a bitter American aid worker. She finds her family, the Contras attack, and she and the Scot face their choices.