A Dangerous Life is a story of an American Journalist, Tony O'Neil (Gary Busey), who put his own life on the line to get the inside story of the overthrow of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. It’s a 1988 English-language film about the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines directed by Robert Markowitz and written by David Williamson. It was originally released as a six-hour HBO mini series in the United States and was later edited down as a 162-minute television movie.