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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) (TV)
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12 December 1992 (USA)
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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.
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Environmental
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Oil
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Oil Spill
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Oil Tanker
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Ship
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1 win
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Top Notch Film, Made-for-Television or Not
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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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.