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1979 | Jack
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | 1980 | T.S.
Top Ten Films | 1979
Best Foreign Actor Migliore Attore Straniero | 1980 | Jack
Best Screenplay | 1980 | James
Motion Picture | 2021
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1980 | Jane
Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1980 | James
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration | 1980
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1980 | Jack
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1980 | Mike
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1980
Best Director Motion Picture | 1980 | James
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 1980 | Jane
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama | 1980 | Jack
Best Classic DVD | 2005
Best Actor | 1980 | Jack
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1980 | James
Best Foreign Film | 1985
Budget 5,900,000 USD
Box Office Collection 51,718,367 USD
When the film was first released on 16 March 1979, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry". Then twelve days after its launch, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The first script for the film was written in the mid-1970s. Michael Douglas initially wanted to produce this film immediately after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Jack Lemmon agreed to play his role as early as 1976. Douglas was enormously grateful to Lemmon, as he remained ready to start work at very short notice for over a year before production started, in the process passing up other work. To return the favor, Douglas amended the shooting schedule to allow Lemmon to attend rehearsals for the Broadway play Tribute (1980), the film version of which would later star Lemmon.
The model for the control room of the plant was based upon the control room at the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Rainier, Oregon (along the Columbia River). At the time, it was the only nuclear plant in the US to offer tours that included a tour of the gallery that looked down into the control room.
Producer Michael Douglas creatively demanded a harsh realism for the film by not having any music score on the soundtrack except for the Stephen Bishop's theme song "Somewhere in Between".
Because the Three Mile Island accident, which resulted in the release of radioactive steam, occurred just weeks after release of this movie, many people associate the movie with Three Mile Island. However, the potentially far more dangerous "Incident at Browns Ferry" (Alabama) happened in 1975, four years earlier, and was caused by a number of construction flaws, operational issues, and safety failures. Brown's Ferry Alabama is more properly the "true" basis of this story. No similar situation happened in California.
"Jack Godell: What makes you think they're looking for a scapegoat? Ted Spindler: Tradition."
"Greg Minor: [reviewing the film footage that Richard had secretly taken while at the nuclear power plant during the emergency] Whatever stuck valve it was, it's forcing them to deal with the water level. From their behavior, it looks pretty serious. As I remember the control layout, the annunciators they seem concerned with are also in the area of the core water level. I dunno... they might have come close to exposing the core. Dr. Lowell: If that's true, we came very close to the China Syndrome. Kimberly Wells: The what? Dr. Lowell: If the core is exposed for whatever reason, the fuel heats beyond core heat tolerance in a matter of minutes. Nothing can stop it. And it melts down right through the bottom of the plant, theoretically to China. But of course, as soon as it hits ground water, it blasts into the atmosphere and sends out clouds of radioactivity. The number of people killed would depend on which way the wind is blowing. Render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable, not to mention the cancer that would show up later."
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