The China Syndrome
PG · 1979 ‧ Thriller/Action ‧ 2h 2m
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A news reporter (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are unintentional witnesses to a SCRAM incident, an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. The crew prevents a catastrophe, but the plant...
Release date: March 16, 1979 (USA)
Director: James Bridges
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Box office: $51.7 million
Music by: Stephen Bishop
Production companies: IPC Films; Major Studio Partners