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The China Syndrome
Drama, Thriller
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value grounded political thrillers about whistleblowing, institutional pressure, and the dangers of suppressing inconvenient truths.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- nuclear risk, institutional secrecy, investigative journalism, corporate accountability, public safety
- Setting
- late twentieth century, Southern California nuclear power plant and television newsroom
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