The China Syndrome PG
Sometimes it’s too late to tell the truth.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 20, 2013
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas & Jack Lemmon | |
Performer: | Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Wilford Brimley, Richard Herd, Daniel Valdez & James Karen | |
Directed by | James Bridges | |
Edited by | David Rawlins | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Gray, T.S. Cook & James Bridges | |
Produced by | Michael Douglas | |
Director of Photography: | James Crabe | |
Executive Production by | Bruce Gilbert |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1979 -
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon
Entertainment Reviews:
What we must quarrel with is the heartless, devious, and appallingly manipulative manner in which the authors of the film have drawn their good-guys-and-bad-guys battlelines ...
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Parallax View
Bridges and his cast have done their work well. There isn't an unexciting moment in it.
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Gannett News Service
It's a gripping drama and one which feels all too feasible for comfort.
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Backseat Mafia
A moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self-importance.
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Variety
The film is one of those rare modern thrillers that manages to combine fantastic acting and intelligent dialogue with real, heart-stopping suspense.
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Film4
All a bit too earnest, despite the seriousness of the subject, with Fonda setting her jaw and stepping into father's footsteps as Tinseltown's very own protector of humanity; but it's tightly scripted and directed, and genuinely tense in places.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Not a comforting film, but an undeniably potent one.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this timely, tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources who is present at a nuclear plant when a startling accident occurs that nearly causes the meltdown of the reactor. A newsreel cameraman accompanying Wells, played by a determined Michael Douglas, captures the incident on film--but the television station won't air the footage. Though the plant's corporate heads are quick to deny the possibility of any real danger, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon), the plant's veteran engineer, discovers faulty equipment at the plant. Attempting to tell others about his findings, Jack soon realizes that someone is trying to kill him to keep him quiet, leading him to an act of utter desperation. The film is a marvel to behold--at turns gripping, stirring, exhilarating, and maddening, with fabulous performances, especially by Lemmon, who is simply marvelous. In a bizarre bit of synchronicity, the film was produced just before the March 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 127,085
- UPC: 014381860627
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