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20 March 1983 (USA) morePlot:
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Won 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Simply amazing -- a nuclear version of Welles' "War of the Worlds" moreCast
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When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway. moreQuotes:
Dr. David McKeeson: Woodley, that's a nice Anglo-Saxon sounding name. I hope it's your own. moreFAQ
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This extraordinary TV movie -- shot on video, to make it resemble a news broadcast -- shows us how network news might cover a group of terrorists holding a city hostage with a nuclear bomb, and in doing so creates extraordinary tension while also getting in subtle and pointed digs at the media.
The movie begins with morning programming at IBC, which is
suddenly interrupted for a you-know-what -- a terrorist group is holding a nuke onboard a tugboat in Charleston Harbor, which they threaten to blow up unless all the nation's nuclear detonators are brought to them so they can be taken to sea and destroyed.
I don't want to give away any of the plot, but suffice it to say that, even with a disclaimer on the screen during the entire running time, folks in Charleston panicked when this film originally aired in the early 1980's. One of the best made-for-TV movies in the history of the medium.