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12 December 1992 (USA) more
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The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized. more | add synopsis
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Cast

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John Heard ... Dan Lawn

Bob Gunton ... Dietrick
Mark Metcalf ... Kelso

Bruce Gray ... Gov. Steve Cowper
Jo Bates ... Michelle Brown
Wally Marsh ... John Janssen

John Maclaren ... Al Kegler
Marek Czuma ... Jim Hayden
Susan Astley ... Jan Jackson

Wally Dalton ... Senator

Frank C. Turner ... Biologist

Christopher Lloyd ... Frank Iarossi
Ron Frazier ... Cornett
Remak Ramsay ... Craig Rassiner
Malcolm Stewart ... Dr. Gordon Lindblom
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Disaster at Valdez
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Top Notch Film, Made-for-Television or Not, 16 June 2005
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Author: Sturgeon54 from United States

One surprising thing about this film, originally produced for HBO, was the gamble that the casting director used in using two actors usually relegated to the supporting cast - John Heard and Christopher Lloyd - for the starring roles. The gamble paid off magnificently - I don't think I've seen better performances from either of these two men; they really are the real-life people that they play: Heard as local Alaska wildlife officer Dan Lawn, and Lloyd as Exxon executive Frank Iarossi. The film avoids the usual glossy made-for-TV movie-of-the-week style to become a much more incisive film with a big-budget feel about the subtle business and political maneuvering that follow a tragedy such as the Exxon tanker crash in Valdez, Alaska. Kudos to the excellent cinematography of Alaska. I also appreciated the fact that this film was fair in portraying a business executive as a human and sympathetic character rather than the swiny caricature common in so many other films. The filmmakers deserve a congratulations for doing their homework to make each aspect of the film ring true.

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