Daniel Valdez, Jack Lemmon, James Hampton
A TV reporter investigates the goings on in a shoddy nuclear power plant and ends up against more than she bargained for.
DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001
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June 13, 2009Jack Lemmon plays a shift supervisor at a nuclear power plant who narrowly averts a core meltdown while being surreptitiously filmed by Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas' visiting TV news crew. When Lemmon's superiors pooh-pooh his reservations about the safety of the plant in their...( read more)
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June 13, 2009interesting foray into corporate corruption and cover up. as relevant today as it was in 1979 as big companies will never stop trampling all over the small fry workers or the general populace. for once michael douglas isn't in an erotic thriller and he does okay, but i was more i...( read more)
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November 1, 2007Jane Fonda plays a tenacious reporter whose news crew chances upon an incident at a nuclear power plant that could have led to a meltdown, and goes on to try and uncover the conspiracy of silence concerning the plant's safety. Essentially a disaster movie without the disaster, th...( read more)
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May 31, 2008Timley thriller with fine acting by Fonda, Douglas and Lemon...a heavy handed message-oriented flick but is quite entertaining nonetheess
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September 18, 2009Great concept. Very smart and controversial, but realistically engaging.
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July 5, 2009I will NOT see a Movie that has this Commie, Traitor, BITCH in it.
They don't have a LOW enough rating for her.
She can rot in the Hanoi Hilton, for what she did to Our troops during Vietnam.
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April 2, 2009A good film which deals with a lot of dilemmas very well. Fonda and Douglas are believable in the roles but it is Lemmon who brings the heart and soul into the film. Lemmon is superb.
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February 25, 2009Suspenseful story that uses lots of tension without the use of music or effects. Good movie with a solid, creepy ending.
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February 1, 2009This is really great. It started to make me think of this episode from Quantum Leap when Sam leaps into a reporter that is trying to uncover what a factory is doing. Anyways, great movie.
Critic Reviews
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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