The China Syndrome (1979)

Top Ten Performances - Jane Fonda (15 movies items)

" as Kimberly Wells "

Favorite Movies of All Time (2013 Edition) (1000 movies items)

"2012: 890 2011: 844 "

Favorite Movies of All Time (2012 Edition) (1000 movies items)

"2011: 844 "

My Movie Highlights of the 1970s (+Watchlists) (86 movies items)

"my rating: 7,5"

Anautix' Movie Diary 2019 (131 movies items)

"17.11.2019 my rating: 7,5"

Jane Fonda Films Viewed by Kathy (24 movies items)

" Director: James Bridges Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd and Wilford Brimley While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic television reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the accident a secret."

Academy Award for Best Production Design: 1970s (50 movies items)

"George Jenkins (Art Directors), Arthur Jeph Parker (Set Decorator) "

Interview Scenes (20 movies items)

" James Hampton, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas"

Movies of Sound Era Without Musical Score (28 movies items)

" All of the music in the film, including the title song "Somewhere In Between" by Stephen Bishop, comes from normal sources of music within the film: car radios, barroom jukeboxes, television commercials, etc. There is no traditional "soundtrack" of music that the audience can hear but the characters cannot. Michael Small composed a complete musical score for this film, but director James Bridges and the producers of the film did not like it. This is why the film was completely devoid of "

A good movie

“It wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I always had a weak spot for Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda, I thought I might as well check it out. Eventually, I’m rather surprised that this movie is pretty much forgotten as it is in fact a fairly realistic and quite entertaining thriller dealing with a possible nuclear threat. In fact, I think it must be the most realistic disaster movie I have ever seen. It is rather interesting that, even though we have a genuine and probably legitimate fear of nuclear power, there is however no other way to provide enough juice to sustain our decadent lifestyle, I’m afraid. So, in the sense, there was something slightly hypocritical about the whole thing. Furthermore, I guess, another issue was perhaps that the whole thing felt sl” read more