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Writer:
Paul Donovan (writer)
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Release Date:
15 March 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Lenore Zann ... J.J.
Maury Chaykin ... Vinny
Kate Lynch ... Jordan
Kevin King ... Gideon Hayes
John Walsch ... Walker
Tim Choate ... Howe
Jeff Pustil ... Lacey
Donna King ... Alice
Alan MacGillivray ... Boomer (as Allan MacGillivray)
Florence Paterson ... Mrs. Boyd
Karen Kennedy ... WWN Newscaster (as Karen Kenedy)
Ken Ryan ... Newscaster
Geoff Harrington ... Vicious Trouper
Al Foster ... Oldster
Hugh Orr ... Squad Leader
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Defense Condition 4 (Canada: English title) (complete title)
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Runtime:
88 min | UK:84 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada more
Company:
New World Pictures more

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Referenced in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986) more

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It was the best of films, it was the worst of films..., 20 February 2001
5/10
Author: jessewillis from Canada

It was the best of films, it was the worst of films... two words: "Engrossingly Mind-numbing". Def-Con 4 is truly an oddball. The script is incomprehensibly senseless. There is no story arc at all, it is simply a collection of characters improvising scenes. It is a great example of what I like to call "plotless development" or "one damn thing after another". The acting is uniformly bad with the exception of Maury Chaykin who is hilarious as a Canadian survivalist. I particularly love one scene in this film in which we see the detail of a mechanism of a booby trap. The booby trap has as its trigger a Canadian social insurance card. What kind of symbolism are we supposed to find in this? Either this is the deepest film I've ever seen or the it is the shallowest. Either it deserves a 10 or it deserves a 1, I'll split the difference and give it 5.

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