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The China Syndrome (1979),
Director: James Bridges, Rated PG
Today,
only a handful of people know what it means... Soon you
will know.
  Starring:
Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James
Hampton, Peter Donat, Wilford Brimley, Richard Herd, Daniel
Valdez, Stan Bohrman
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"If the core is
exposed for whatever reason, the fuel heats beyond core heat
tolerance in a matter of minutes. Nothing can stop it. And it
melts down right through the bottom of the plant, theoretically
to China." - Dr. Lowell
Why watch this? This
intense thriller, centered on a nuclear power plant, will shock you.
Plot Summary:
When a news TV reporter and her cameraman witness an "event" at
a California nuclear plant, it appears that there's more to the
story than the owning company will admit. They reach out to
shift supervisor Jack Godell, who admits that x-ray scans of
welds were falsified to keep the plant running under cost.
Dad's Preview: This
movie builds to a jaw-dropping climax, thanks to a compelling
subject, and superb performances by Fonda, Douglas and the
wonderful Jack Lemmon. Ironically, Three Mile Island's Unit 2
reactor would partially melt down the same year this film was
released. I am sure there are many appropriate times and places
to cut costs. However, a nuclear plant should not be one of
them.
IPC Films,
Major Studio Partners; Columbia Pictures |
