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Scorcher (2002)

Scorcher poster
Directed by
James Seale
Genre
action film, science fiction film, disaster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
16
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A nuclear accident causes the Earth's tectonic plates to shift. A small group of scientists must find a way to stop a global catastrophe.

fast-pacedurgentsuspensefulintensebleakapocalypticdireserious

What happens

Scorcher is a 2002 science-fiction disaster film directed by James Seale and starring Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Jeffrey Johnson, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston, G.W. Bailey, Thomas F. Duffy, and Rutger Hauer. It was first released in the United States in 2002. It concerns a group of scientists who discover, after a disastrous nuclear accident, that the Earth's tectonic plates are shifting and creating immense pressure that will destroy the Earth in a fiery global eruption, and a few top scientists must find a way to stop it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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