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4.5 out of 10 More A Prophesy Than A Movie
Ken from Dublin, 12 Mar 2007
This movie, “The China Syndrome” (1979), about a potential ecological and human disaster at a nuclear powered electricity generating plant opened in the USA on the 12th March 1979. Only 12 days later, on the 28th March 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania came close to total meltdown in an accident that closely (and somewhat eerily) mirrored the scenario portrayed in the movie. Seven years later, on April 25th 1986, the unthinkable actually happened, when the Chernobyl nucle
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4 out of 10 A moral tale for the modern age
Sean from Kildare, 19 Jan 2010
An excellent exposé of blind corporate greed and it's potential consequences. Particularly poignant since it was released before the incident at Three Mile Island and the disaster at Chernobyl in 1986. Defintely worth seeing if you like an intelligent but exciting movie.
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4 out of 10 Excellent
Frank from Cork, 29 Jun 2009
Yes. Now this is a film. Great cast, wonderful performances, and the lack of crappy hollywood music telling you how to feel was a relief. Great seventies movie.
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In 1979, The China Syndrome was the movie everyone was talking about, thanks to the enormous publicity generated by the real-life Three Mile Island accident that not only mirrored the events depicted in the film but occurred just twelve days after the movie's release. Nominated for four Academy Awards - Best Actor (Lemmon), Best Actress (Fonda), Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, The CHina Syndrome remains "as explosive as the metaphor of its title" (Los Angeles...

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