Acceptable Risks

Acceptable Risks

5.0IMDb Score
Released:1986-03-02
Duration:92 min
Director:Rick Wallace
Actors:Brian Dennehy, Kenneth McMillan, Christine Ebersole, Beah Richards, Richard Gilliland
Production:ABC, ABC Circle Films

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.

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