Nightbreaker (1989)

Directed by

Peter Markle

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A neurologist confronts his past as a soldier who witnessed nuclear tests in the 1950s. The film shifts between his present-day guilt and the military secrecy surrounding the atomic experiments.

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What happens

Nightbreaker (also known as Advance to Ground Zero) is a 1989 American historical drama television film directed by Peter Markle and written by T. S. Cook, inspired by the book Atomic Soldiers: American Victims of Nuclear Experiments by Howard L. Rosenberg. The film stars Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez as older and younger versions of fictional neurologist Alexander Brown. It also stars Lea Thompson, Melinda Dillon, and Joe Pantoliano. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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