Acceptable Risks (1986)
A disaster beyond imagination... and they said it could never happen.
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.
- Date of release
- 1986-03-02
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Rick Wallace
Casting
- Brian Dennehy — Don Sheppard
- Kenneth McMillan — Wes Boggs
- Christine Ebersole — Lee Snyder
- Beah Richards — Sally Framm
- Richard Gilliland — David Kohler
- Vic Polizos — Lou Keller
- Peter Jurasik — Jack Morris
- Cicely Tyson — Janet Framm
- Patti Cohoon-Friedman — Ann Kohler
- Steve Eastin — Jerry Haywood
- Richard McKenzie — Mayor Earl Ross
- Tom Simcox — Joe Reed
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