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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
Directed by Larry Elikann
Overview
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake—“The Big One”—will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending “Big One.”
Length 180 minutes
Actors
Joanna Kerns | Dan Lauria | Bonnie Bartlett | Lindsay Frost | Alan Autry | Joe Spano | Holly Fields | Brock Peters | Stephen Elliott | Robert Ginty | Clarence Gilyard Jr. | Silvana Gallardo | Michael T. Weiss | Charles Siebert | Richard Herd | J. Kenneth Campbell | Richard Masur | Ed Begley Jr. | Richard Anthony Crenna | Kasi Lemmons | Allan Wasserman | Ross Kettle | Eloy Casados | Jacob Vargas | Mort Sertner | Felecia M. Bell | Matt Roe