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Acceptable Risks (1986)
Directed by Rick Wallace
Overview
The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made-for-TV disaster film. It all begins when the owners of Citichem order the plant manager to enact dangerous cost cuts that compromise the safety of the plant. He protests, but it is to no avail and a worker dies. At the same time, the city manager tries to warn the people that a deadly disaster is imminent, but he ends up gagged by the local politicians. Meanwhile, just when the community is at its most unprepared, a melt-down occurs and the town is drenched in deadly chemicals.
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Brian Dennehy | Kenneth McMillan | Christine Ebersole | Beah Richards | Richard Gilliland | Vic Polizos | Peter Jurasik | Cicely Tyson | Patti Cohoon-Friedman | Richard McKenzie | Tom Simcox | Scott Curtis | Edan Gross | John Ingle | Mary Gregory