Special Bulletin
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3/20/1983Runtime
103 minsOverview
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.
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A taut pseudo-documentary about a nuclear threat unfolding in real-time through TV broadcasts, which collapses the boundary between watching news and living through a crisis. The found-footage format transforms a hostage situation into an immediate, almost unbearably present experience.
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Ed Flanders
John Woodley
Kathryn Walker
Susan Myles
Roxanne Hart
Megan 'Meg' Barclay
Christopher Allport
Steven Levitt
David Clennon
Dr. Bruce Lyman
David Rasche
Dr. David McKeeson
Rosalind Cash
Frieda Barton
Ebbe Roe Smith
Jim Seaver
Roberta Maxwell
Diane Silverman
Robert Kay
George Takasima
J. Wesley Huston
Bernard Frost
Frank Dent
Dr. Jason Halpern
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