Nightbreaker (1989)
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Father-and-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez star in the made-for-TV movie Nightbreaker. The film was first telecast March 9, 1989, two months after the debut of another TNT Cable Service "original", Finish Line. The earlier film also starred a father and son, James and Josh… More Father-and-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez star in the made-for-TV movie Nightbreaker. The film was first telecast March 9, 1989, two months after the debut of another TNT Cable Service "original", Finish Line. The earlier film also starred a father and son, James and Josh Brolin; but, whereas the Brolins were cast in parent-child roles, Sheen and Estevez portray the same character. Nightbreaker is based on the recent revelation that the US government, in the interests of scientific research, deliberately exposed servicemen to radiation during the Nevada atomic bomb tests of the 1950s. Sheen plays a former military doctor, inexplicably suffering from sterility in the 1980s. Searching for answers, Sheen flashes back thirty years, to the time that he was a witness to the A-bomb tests. Estevez plays the younger Sheen in the 1950s sequences. Nightbreaker was written with what Jonathan Swift used to call "savage indignation" by T. S. Cook. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Peter Markle
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 1, 1989 Wide
- Studio
- Turner Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Martin Sheen
as Dr. Alexander Brown (present)
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Emilio Estevez
as Dr. Alexander Brown Jr.
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Lea Thompson
as Sally Matthews
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Melinda Dillon
as Paula Brown
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Joe Pantoliano
as Sgt. Jack Russell
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Geoffrey Blake
as Python
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Tom Bower
as Dan Cuffer
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Paul Eiding
as Dr. Roscoe Cummings
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Michael Laskin
as Dr. Hatch
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James Marshall
as Immerman
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Nicholas Pryor
as Col. William Devereau
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Lance Slaughter
as Bass
