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TV Movie

Special Bulletin

1983·1h 43m
Drama
IMDb Rating
★ 7.5/10
1,533 votes

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own if their demand isn't met.

Special Bulletin is a 1983 drama movie directed by Edward Zwick, starring Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Christopher Allport. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.5/10 from 1,533 votes and runs 1h 43m.

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Director
Edward Zwick
Stars
Ed Flanders
Kathryn Walker
Christopher Allport
Roxanne Hart
Details
1983-03-20
103 min
TV Movie
★ United States
★ English
Keywords
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