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Genres:
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Thriller /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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James Bridges
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Actors:
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James Hampton,
Stan Bohrman,
Jane Fonda,
Jack Lemmon,
Michael Douglas,
Scott Brady,
Peter Donat,
Wilford Brimley,
Richard Herd,
Daniel Valdez
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Duration:
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122 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)92.5
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Plot Summary:
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KTLA Tube kind-hearted interest reporter Kimberly Wells aspires to do hard hitting dispatch stories, whereas billet gall wants to keep her to her contemporary leaning; they're more vexed about the color, in the long run b for a long time and style of her mane than her investigative abilities. While doing a individual interest story at the Ventana nuclear power shop, she may deceive stumbled onto her dream story when on-site she witnesses what she thinks is a tight-fisted atomic d‚b?cle. Her freelance cameraman and associate, Richard Adams, clandestinely films the in any case as it unfolds i... n Ventana's control room. However, passenger station brass quashes the story due in have a share to susceptibility issues. Although disappointed, Kimberly initially follows her boss' directives as she wants to protect her career track, whereas Richard wants to use the film to actually determine to be abroad what happened. Uncovering the truly hits an old snag when the regulatory commission reports that the gear faced no significant offspring during the incident. Both Kimberly and Richard on the sudden and favorable shot was directly to the particulars that development of another nuclear power shop is currently wealthy result of the notable consultation process. Pursuing at the instil, Jack Godell, the supervisor on duty in the control area during the incident, believes that something undoubtedly is defective with the workshop due to the things turned out, when he felt a tremor on-site. His beliefs are strengthened due to some radioactive ooze in the informant from an unknown origin and the conception of some falsified documents, the latter which he knows may be a threat to his life by the perpetrators. Jack, with Kimberly and Richard's supporter, does whatever he can to get his story into the known consciousness to avert what he thinks is a potential atomic meltdown at the shrub. But the power company is purposeful to keep Jack smooth and to mind their billion dollar investment, namely Ventana.
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The China Syndrome
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