The China Syndrome 1979 Watch Free in HD

A news reporter and her cameraman are unintentional witnesses to a SCRAM incident, an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. Something is terribly wrong at the plant, but its owners are more interested in finances and public relations, and cover the entire matter up.

Genre:

Thriller, Drama

Actors:

Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Wilford Brimley, Richard Herd, Daniel Valdez, Stan Bohrman, James Karen, ...»

Director:

James Bridges

Country:

United States

Release:

1979

IMDb:

7.4

Quality:

Duration:

122 min

Time Out

All a bit too earnest, despite the seriousness of the subject, with Fonda setting her jaw and stepping into father's footsteps as Tinseltown's very own protector of humanity; but it's tightly scripted and directed, and genuinely tense in places.

June 24, 2006

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eFilmCritic.com

File this one under 'Hasn't Aged Well.'

April 09, 2007

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Parallax View

What we must quarrel with is the heartless, devious, and appallingly manipulative manner in which the authors of the film have drawn their good-guys-and-bad-guys battlelines ...

March 25, 2011

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Variety

A moderately compelling thriller about the potential perils of nuclear energy, whose major fault is an overweening sense of its own self-importance.

March 26, 2009

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's an exciting and worthwhile old-fashioned thriller about the dangers of a nuclear power accident.

January 30, 2009

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Common Sense Media

Scary, absorbing thriller predicts risks of nuclear power.

May 05, 2014

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TV Guide

Not a comforting film, but an undeniably potent one.

March 27, 2009

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Chicago Sun-Times

A terrific thriller that incidentally raises the most unsettling questions about how safe nuclear power plants really are.

October 23, 2004

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New York Times

The three stars are splendid, but maybe Miss Fonda is just a bit more than that. Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film.

May 20, 2003

Los Angeles Alternative

Crackling drama about TV reporter (Jane Fonda) investigating a coverup at a faulty nuclear reactor, and pressing upon conflicted technician played by the first-rate Jack Lemmon to go public with the story.

March 25, 2006

Film4

The film is one of those rare modern thrillers that manages to combine fantastic acting and intelligent dialogue with real, heart-stopping suspense.

March 27, 2009

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Chicago Reader

A tightly assembled didactic thriller.

March 27, 2009

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