For me, this one is tied with his amazing performance in “Absence of Malice” with Paul Newman and Sally Field. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNqhda17q5jdpnk.html

@@robynharris7179 And even Fonda as reporter Kimberly in this film had red hair dyed to be like other reporter named Brenda Starr.

My grampa ran refineries and later a hospital...engineers are cool.

@kicky_sam_49 He had a very small role a few years later in another Jane Fonda movie ‘Electric Horseman’.

@@jogman262 Actually, it was this same year, 1979. He's very genuine for sure.

Everyone should have a bowl of pipin' hot oatmeal, or a dozen, in his honour.

@Hongrealiano Leonardo 3:05-3:08 Kimberly Wells: This is Kimberly Wells live at.... Channel 3.

@Hongrealiano Leonardo This is a sad ending where a sad Kimberly Wells reporting............................................................... (spoilers) that Jack Godell has been shot and the plant is being shut down.

@iNFoPeace Came out after Chinatown.

Not to mention this movie had just came out and 3 mile island happened

This film is anti-nuclear propaganda.

Some of us never learned how to make or have long-term friends.

I hope you’re not a hypocrite. If you support planned parenthood’s murdering in the womb, think of this, all planned parenthood’s have windows you CANNOT see into. Why? The TRUTH will be seen, and then people won’t be oblivious anymore, just like on this movie. There is more wrongs then just in this film. You however will try and fight to murder in the womb, so you have no excuse you are doing it no matter what when you choose to be oblivious!

@@thedon1570 I really have no idea what your response is supposed to mean, or how it relates in any way to my comment. Please don’t respond to this, I have no interest in being ranted at.

@@robynharris7179 read what I wrote and don’t play stupid, people can’t pick and choose what to be upset about when there is an issue to fix. You complain about the proper role of government and the media yet they just told you to vaccinate for instance yet still now wear MASKS, why vaccinate then? Yet they pushed this crazy campaign on social media. Come on now!

@@robynharris7179 I see what you mean, but I'm not going back to the 1800's over a movie from the early 80s, and I sure as hell am not going to continue the OPEC+ cartel driven fossil fuel status quo over it.

Yep, back when journalism was about giving the people the truth before it was all bought out and only reported what they want you to know.

@@KillerMoth3 The problem started when the News became the News itself. Now everything is Opinionated and people swallow it up. To hell with the truth they said, let's feed them a narrative instead!

When Reagan's FCC killed the Fairness Doctrine, it killed the kind of journalism so many Americans remember. Granted, the Doctrine only applied to broadcast news at the time. But that was because cable news was in its infancy. I'm sure it would have been added to the Doctrine, but that likely would have required legislation to implement. If the Fairness Doctrine had been left intact, and extended to cable news, Fox News and its ilk wouldn't exist. Fair and balanced, indeed.

It didn't. The SCRAM stopped the meltdown from happening. The cut to color bars signifies that the accident is being swept under the rug rather than the conditions leading up to it being dealt with. I have no idea why people want this serious, cerebral drama movie to end with a kind of fantastical action-movie ending where the plant blows up. The movie is about the dangers of entrusting nuclear power in the hands of capital, the near-miss is enough to scare us.

It can be read either way, but the timing of it, the feed cutting out a split-secind before the station itself does, does suggest a Chernobyl-type steam explosion first taking out the on location team, then wiping out the LA grid.

I remember going to the theatre to watch this film and the Three Mile Island disaster occurred within a week of its release. I also know, since I grew up in Michigan, of an incident that occurred near Detroit and could have been a tremendous disaster. I am not proposing that nuclear power is not what we need because we *do* require it to allow us to function. Just like anything, there is a downside. If only scientists could eliminate the danger and maximize its potential. But then, this has been an issue since the first moment an atom was split.

For a similar "blink and you'll miss it" tell, notice that in the otherwise forgettable SUM OF ALL FEARS, the television coverage of the Super Bowl being watched at the Baltimore hospital a few miles away clicks out a half-second BEFORE the blast wave hits. That director paid attention to detail.

Yes, I see no other reason for the "Preview" feed to cut to no-signal image just moments before the local television station "On Air" also goes down. The plant exploded, killing everyone instantly, then the shockwave/EMP went out to disrupt the surrounding city and infrastructure. I'd be curious for anyone else's interpretation. But this really seems to be, as @cmalberts mentioned, the director paid attention to detail.

But Lemmon was the bigger name back then. Michael Douglas was more known as a producer during the time (he also produced this movie), and less of an actor.

Douglas had almost no film credits of anymore, outside of Coma the year before this. Outside of producing, he was really only known for the TV show Streets of San Francisco to this point.

Douglas had a pretty thankless role in this movie. Lemmon and Fonda both had material they could really sink their teeth into, and they did.

Except for the fact that both Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas were not worthless traitors. Fonda is and always will be a worthless traitor to the United States of America.

Simple explanation: people trusted the engineers who designed the system more than a wacko. Yes Jack Goodell was a wacko. doing what the book says not to do. His friend Ted, as in so many cases when people are close, could not see his erratic behavior for what it was. And the media; Kimberly simply looking to make a sensational story whenever it can. The engineers were right. The system shut down safely twice despite all the nutty human interference.

@@roseymalino9855 Dense, aren't we?

@@roseymalino9855 what movie did you watch? If it was this one, you must have missed the parts about the falsified radiographs, the leaking radioactive water, goons running that guy off the road to get back the incriminating radiographs, Goodel being chased and threatened to prevent him testifying to the regulatory commission, the reactor almost shaking itself apart at the end of the movie, vindicating his concern… you’re talking like he’s a real person when this story was crafted specifically to show that he was right and the plant owners were putting people in danger. It really is peak contrarian to say “actually this story shows the opposite of what the writers intended and everyone except me found easy to understand.” You should start a movie review channel, that would be gold.

Yeah, you're right, Jack probably went overboard when he exceeded more than what the book guidelines said could be done. However, there might've been a risk of something dangerous happening if he didn't make certain orders. In the end, the plant went haywire, but it was finally stabilized. Regardless if the plant went back to normal, he was right that it should have been shut down. Jack might've overreacted, but his paranoia proves a point when you finally see the whole plant turning dark in the control room while shaking and rumbling everywhere with the lights flashing all over the place. He was right, that vibration he heard in the beginning meant something very bad was bound to happen.

It was a good subplot and character arc. Female reporters were treated differently back in the mid-70s, and not taken seriously.

Still today. A man just got fired for calling a sports reporter a "barbie".

It''s interesting that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also had silent credits, and both films were produced by Michael Douglas.

I wish she had won for this Film instead, while Geraldine Page would win for Interiors.

I wonder if she regretted her choice though with everything that happened

​@@bearcattony00why ?

Jane Fonda is a communist POS who got service members killed and tortured. Hanoi Jane deserves no accolades.

Thank you for this. Best comment here 😂

He lived to be a month shy of 86.

When a political leader spends years telling his devout supporters that every negative news story about him is "fake news", and you start believing that, it's not the media lying. It's you being gaslit. When you're believing that political leader over the news, he's got you right where he wants you.

blame fox news they pushed to have the fairness doctrine over turned and spread lies getting more brazen with each decade

Makes you wonder how much the real life disaster helped the movie's box office.

Big time. The movie was well reviewed and would’ve been popular, but the panic just made it all the more must-see. Made $52M on a $6M budget. Not bad.

What I always find interesting is that in the movie, an anti-nuclear activist makes a comment to the effect that if a full meltdown had occurred it would have "rendered an area the size of Pennsylvania" uninhabitable. Then, less than two weeks after the film's release, the Three Mile Island Reactor in Pennsylvania had a partial meltdown caused by a stuck valve in the cooling system that allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The mechanical failure was compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant event, during which an operator manually overrode the emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believed that there was too much coolant water present in the reactor when it was actually dangerously low, which is a nearly exact repeat of the events depicted in the movie.

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With the very big difference that they almost immediatly found the mistake and reversed it. They got lucky, despite the mishap.

iNFoPeace I did not. But if you’ve rated this movie highly, I concur. Because it’s a great flick.

its sad but the movie is just to old for me i can barely watch stuff thats pre 2000

@@MrExorius You can’t watch films made before 2000 because they look too dated? Toughen up and don’t be so fussy.

Just cannot stand Hanoi Jane.

@@JoeLanza80 you legend

The Amana Radarange was (and is) the best. Price in the 70s would be around 4000$ today, regarding inflation.

Sharp carousel weren't you paying attention?

@Stu Timelive The China Syndrome and The Exorcist are the 1970s crazy and tragic films, and then the crime film Dirty Harry came on the scene.

@@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher Dirty Harry (1971) came before Exorcist (1973) or China syndrome (1979)

@@kennethprice8710 Easy Rider looks cheezy film in 1969.

Still waiting...

In the film it was more than just the usual management BS. They fraudulently submitted the same radiograph of the reactor welding over and over, passing them off as radiographs of different welds. For a nuclear power plant. That’s serious criminal conduct.

That means the man D.B. Royce was lying to Jack. All of the welds were not "fine", and he was deliberately trying to pacify the situation to not get in trouble. Corruption beyond belief, even when it comes to danger and consequences.

@@stonegasman3866 Do your own research.

Yes Satan of course. J/k 😂

No, it’s sickening that greedy companies headed by clueless blowhards destroyed nuclear power’s image.

Nuclear propaganda!

@@I_leave_mean_commentsI don’t think this film is as anti nuclear, more like anti corruption. The plant managers was able to avoid a meltdown cause the procedures worked. The plant failed cause of shotty/cheap construction and poor management.

Sometimes coincidences occur. In this case it was extreme fortuitous for the film

It couldn't be made today. The ethos that informed this movie no longer represents who we are.

TMI and Chernobyl didn’t help, nor did the fiasco in Fukushima.

@@nkt1 You wanna compare that to the millions of tons of soot in the atmosphere from oil and coal?

@@sid2112 Obviously that’s far worse, and I’m pro-nuclear power. But the nuclear power industry really shot itself in the foot with the cases I mentioned.

TMI happened after the film came out.

What’s Chernobyl got to do with Jane Fonda?

@@nkt1 Hanoi Jane, the AOC of the 70s, was only fulfilling the role the communist party ordered to her, stopping the industrial and energetical development of the free world while the communist world was building absurdly cheap RBMK nuclear reactors, with none of the security measures present in Three Mile Island.

@@angelrogo Hahaha, what drivel. Oh no, AOC is coming to get us! Speaking of Reagan, Carter installed solar panels on the roof if the White House. Free, clean energy! What did Reagan do? Had them torn down.

You are an idiot.

My man she was brilliant. Her father may've opened doors for her, but he can't act for her.

Russian troll says what? Go back to your hovel in Moscow

Fonda also played her role so well. Her and your political views are irrelevant.