Jack Lemmon alone is worth the price of admission - a brilliant portrayal of a man conflicted about what he knows in his heart he must do.

Dire warning of what would happen if Lil Tony was in charge of nuclear power instead of disease. Title is coincidence.

A good 70s movie with a great cast

Ensign Pulver running a nuke plant! What Can POSSIBLY Go Wrong? Seriously, Jack Lemmon is only suited for screwball comedies, and just barely. If his foil is Jimmy Cagney, that's one thing, but to see him do his usual shtick here is just painful. Throw in the overacting by Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas, and you've got yourself a real stinker.

Jack Lemon rules. The topic still relevant today. I felt the middle part a bit boring.

I'm a big fan of films that expose corporate corruptness so this was up my alley. I'm generally not a big Michael Douglas fan, but really liked him in this. Jack Lemmon and Wilford Brimley were outstanding.

a paranoid story at a nuclear reactor. don't worry

If you can process all the technical jargon, a great character arc for Jack emerges that really drives this forward, and not the failed reporting skills of Kimberley

Pretty intriguing film that is woefully let down by a cliched script. It's a well-acted film that displays the dirty politics and greed surrounding nuclear energy. However, the script is full of cliches that does bring the film down. It also isn't helped by other news films analysing the politics of the news media in a more intriguing manner, such as Network and Christine. The ending in the nuclear power plant was unexpected and well-directed but the final ending was still a bit lame. Jack Lemmon was nominated for Best Actor for the film but, out of the nominees I have seen, I thought his performance was weaker than Hoffman, Pacino and even Schneider (a film I did not like). I thought Lemmon was just playing the same role as he did in Missing and Glengarry Glen Ross. Jane Fonda, who got a nomination for Best Actress, was good in the film but not as good as Clayburgh; the only other nominee I've seen. The nominated script was definitely better than All That Jazz but not as good as ...And Justice For All and Manhattan. Overall, a somewhat enjoyable movie but quite predictable and cliched.

The China Syndrome is a very well-crafted thriller with a great cast that includes Hollywood superstar Jane Fonda, screen legend Jack Lemmon and an up-and-coming actor by the name of Michael Douglas. Its premise is an original idea by director James Bridges along with screenwriters T.S Cook and Mike Gray and whilst the acting is brilliant, the real hook to this story is that the probability of something like this happening is scarily possible, something that still holds up to this day.

Add to Cast: Alan Beckwith as Techician

Síndrome da China (1979) #IMDb #MovieReview 4,0 ⭐️ Ao fazer uma reportagem sobre energia em usina nuclear, repórter testemunha que algo está bem errado, assim como o chefe de operações da instalação. Thriller bem feito, com grande elenco. Muito bom!

It is well acted but the script is nothing special or new.

Although I am not a big fan of Jane Fonda, this movie was great. The acting was superb and the suspense kept you interested. Jack Lemmon was amazing portraying the character, Jack Goodell. I recommend this to anyone who loves conspiracy and suspense films.

On visiting the Ventura nuclear power plant, journalist Kimberley Wells (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) find themselves witnessing and experiencing a major emergency when something goes wrong with a turbine malfunctioning causing the plant to go through the procedure of an emergency shutdown. This shows that the plant isn't as safe as the plant's management would have everyone believe. Whilst this was going on Adams secretly films the whole thing. When a superior at the 온라인카지노추천 station where they work won't let the secret footage be televised, Adams decides to steal the footage from the station's vault room and show it to experts who can say exactly what happened at the plant and how dangerous it was. They say that the plant narrowly avoided a 'china syndrome' in which the plant's core would have melted down into the ground, hit water there and emitted radioactive steam into the atmosphere which could have spread over a considerable radius. Add to this that the plant employee who helped avoid this catastrophic event happening, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) also sees other signs that all is not well at the plant including a pool of radioactive water that has leaked from a pump and radiograph images of welds and how strong they are that are identical showing that the same one was just submitted again and again. A quest to get the truth out then ensues with potentially life threatening obstacles being placed in our protagonist's way. And this is a major theme within the film- should the truth be exposed and will the truth be exposed. With this premise firmly in place the film becomes a prime (and brilliant) example of paranoid 70's cinema alongside films like The Parallax View- movies that show once trusted organisations containing people in positions of power that may now have their own darker agendas once corruption and money have clouded affairs. Within the film theres also a subtle and very perceptive look at gender roles in the workplace and the glass ceiling actively in operation. Kimberley Wells wants to televise this story as firstly, she wants the truth to come out for the good of everyone but also because she wants to make the move into serious journalism. Wells is seen by the station as someone who is 'paid to smile and not think' (as the trailer perceptively states) as we see the kind of stories that she gets to report on- usually end of the night, lighthearted piffle designed to lift viewer's hearts after the more serious, 'real' news has been reported. The film is another example of a 70's movie that shows California very well indeed. The cinematography is brilliant with the highways and landscapes looking especially beautiful.  Finally, The China Syndrome is also a very important film as it's one of Jane Fonda's best 'Hair-Do Hall of Fame' movies. Her tsunami of red hair is just as iconic and epoch-defining as her Klute feather cut or her 9 To 5 do. Just sayin'. 

Great acting and story, and very accurately predicted the 3 mile island disaster.

Thanks tcm. After a friends wedding and not having to work... Got a tcm night of summer noir alley and this seventies nuclear thriller with a strong cast... Gracias

What can I say? I did not like it. Before watching it I was against nuclear power, but now I am kinda open to it. This happen to me when a movie just put a line down saying what is right and what is wrong. I usually go with the wrong, just for the sake of it. Anyway the movie bored me. Forty years ago disaster flick are just... you know... old.

A Highly engaging and intense drama definitely worth watching

Three powerhouse performances punctuate this rousing effort from director James Bridges. And though its subject matter might not necessarily age in the sense that it features many "pressing" questions about the current pace of our country's energy consumption, that doesn't necessarily mean that the issues discussed in "The China Syndrome" aren't reverberating in different respects throughout society today. In fact, problems such as negligence, indiscretion, and general corporate oversight still plague many different forms of the energy industry today (i.e. "Erin Brockovich," "Deepwater Horizon" etc.) It's a truly worthy and riveting effort, featuring one of the best Jack Lemmon performances I've seen. Definitely a must-watch.