The China Syndrome (1979)
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: James Bridges
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas
Synopsis:
TV reporters become involved in a cover-up attempt when a routine visit to a nuclear power plant is interrupted by an accident.
Review:
Topical at the time because of a similar accident in the N.E. United States, this conspiracy thriller cum environmental disaster movie shuns all objectivity with its meddling journalists and disgruntled employee canonized as individual Americans overcoming hopeless odds. The viewer is swept along happily because it is tense, taut and very well acted.
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: James Bridges
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas
Synopsis:
TV reporters become involved in a cover-up attempt when a routine visit to a nuclear power plant is interrupted by an accident.
Review:
Topical at the time because of a similar accident in the N.E. United States, this conspiracy thriller cum environmental disaster movie shuns all objectivity with its meddling journalists and disgruntled employee canonized as individual Americans overcoming hopeless odds. The viewer is swept along happily because it is tense, taut and very well acted.
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: James Bridges
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas
Synopsis:
TV reporters become involved in a cover-up attempt when a routine visit to a nuclear power plant is interrupted by an accident.
Review:
Topical at the time because of a similar accident in the N.E. United States, this conspiracy thriller cum environmental disaster movie shuns all objectivity with its meddling journalists and disgruntled employee canonized as individual Americans overcoming hopeless odds. The viewer is swept along happily because it is tense, taut and very well acted.