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Paul Donovan (writer)
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15 March 1985 (USA)
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Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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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Defense Condition 4 (Canada: English title) (complete title)
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88 min | UK:84 min
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Referenced in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986)
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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.