Release Date: December 8th, 2008
DVD Release Date: May 25th, 1999
PG|2 hr 2 min
Plot Summary
A news reporter (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are unintentional witnesses to a SCRAM incident, an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. The crew prevents a catastrophe, but the plant supervisor (Jack Lemmon) begins to suspect the plant is in violation of safety standards, and tries desperately to bring it to the attention of the public, fearing that another SCRAM incident will produce an atomic disaster.
Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Wilford Brimley, James Karen
Director: James Bridges
Production Co: IPC Films
Distributors: Columbia Pictures
Keywords: 1970s, Gripping, Suspenseful, Intense, Sacrifice, Fall
