Fail Safe (2000)
- Directed by
- Stephen Frears
- Genre
- drama film, psychological thriller, political thriller
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 88 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Cold War crisis unfolds when a U.S. bomber is mistakenly ordered to attack Moscow. Military and political leaders race to prevent a nuclear disaster as the clock ticks down.
tensebleakatmosphericsuspensefulcoldurgentstarknoir-ish
What happens
Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, directed by Stephen Frears and based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s. The broadcast was introduced by Walter Cronkite; his introduction, also broadcast in black and white, is included in the DVD releases of the film. The novel was first adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet; the TV version is shorter than the 1964 film due to commercial airtime and omits a number of subplots. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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