Men with Guns

(Columbia TriStar)

Set in an imaginary Latin American country, John Sayles's thuddingly obvious political allegory recounts the moral odyssey of Dr. Fuentes (the excellent Argentine actor Federico Luppi), an idealistic physician who decides to visit a number of young doctors he trained to treat impoverished Indians in remote villages -- only to discover that they've all been murdered by government troops engaged in brutal repression.