По атмосфере разнокалиберного и нелепо-масштабного захвата штурмом одного человека, не причиняющего никому вреда, фильм напомнил мне "Собачий полдень".
В этом случае не просто не причиняющий вреда, а говорящий правду, неугодную владельцам небезопасной атомной электростанции.

Когда начала смотреть трейлер, мне хватило 5 секунд, чтобы увидеть рядом с Майклом Джейн Фонду и Джека Леммона, чтобы решить посмотреть фильм.
Майкл вообще я смотрю как продюсер работает над весьма успешными фильмами. Стоит ли упоминать "Пролетая над гнездом кукушки".

Хороший фильм. Чуть долго разгонялся, но потом напряжению не было предела.
Закончила я бы несколько по-другому, заставила бы виноватых заплатить за это, хотя бы в кино.



When the film was first released on 16 March 1979, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry".
Then by a bizarre irony, the disaster at the nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island happened just 13 days later on March 28th.
It was commented how the events had left nuclear executives embarrassed with egg on their faces.

Rob Dixon has said of the production of this picture: "The genesis of The China Syndrome came partly from Jane Fonda's roots as an outspoken political activist.

Richard Dreyfuss was originally cast as the cameraman but pulled out shortly before filming was to start and Michael Douglas, who also produced the film, was replaced in the role instead.

Producer Michael Douglas spent the better part of a year having the film's screenplay properly developed with the film's three writers.

Producer Michael Douglas creatively demanded a harsh realism for the film by not having any music score on the soundtrack except for the Stephen Bishop's theme song "Somewhere in Between".

The first sсript for the film was written in the mid-1970 Michael Douglas initially wanted to produce this film immediately after Пролетая над гнездом кукушки.
Jack Lemmon agreed to play his role as early as 1976. Douglas was enormously grateful to Lemmon as he remained ready to start work at very short notice for over a year before production started and in the process cost himself alot of other work.
To returnm the favour, Douglas amended the shooting schedule to allow Lemmon to attend rehearsals to for the Broadway stage play of Tribute which Lemmon would later star in the film version of.

Jane Fonda broke her ankle towards the end of shooting and had to be flown away for treatment. Scenes were shot around her after that, though through editing, it's hard to notice.