We’ve got nothing but admiration for Jane Fonda and especially for Jane’s amazing career. We hope she keeps making movies forever!
Get ready to perch on the edge of your seat for what Roger Ebert called, “A terrific thriller!”
Kimberly Wells (Jane!) is an ambitious reporter who’s not taken seriously by her superiors. Despite her insistence on covering “hard news,” she is assigned to cover the birthdays of zoo animals. On an assignment, she and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are unintentional witnesses to an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California.
The crew prevents a catastrophe, but the plant supervisor (Jack Lemmon) begins to suspect there are some serious safety violations at play. He and Kimberly desperately try to bring it to the attention of the public, fearing that another incident will produce an atomic disaster, but they soon find themselves entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
