Afterburn (1992)

Directed by

Robert Markowitz

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman takes on the US military and a defense contractor after her husband dies in an F-16 crash. She must prove the accident was caused by a design flaw, not pilot error.

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What happens

Afterburn is a 1992 drama film written and produced for television, based on a true story where one woman takes on the United States military and General Dynamics, manufacturer of the F-16 jet fighter aircraft that took her husband's life. The docudrama starred Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, and Vincent Spano. The film's name is derived from the "Afterburner" bar where the central character (Janet Harduvel), who works as a waitress, met her future husband, a setting that forms the focus of the first part of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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