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Director
  
Peter Markle

Music director
  
Peter Bernstein

Language
  
English

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Nightbreaker (film) movie poster

Writer
  
Howard L. Rosenberg
,
T. S. Cook

Release date
  
March 8, 1989 (1989-03-08)

Awards
  
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Long Form - Television

Cast
  
Martin Sheen
(Dr. Alexander Brown - Present),
Emilio Estevez
(Dr. Alexander Brown - Past),
Lea Thompson
(Sally Matthews),
Melinda Dillon
(Paula Brown),
Joe Pantoliano
(Sgt. Jack Russell)

Similar movies
  
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez appear in Nightbreaker and In the Custody of Strangers

Tagline
  
How Close Can You Get To Hell?

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Nightbreaker (also known as Advance to Ground Zero in the United Kingdom) is a 1989 television film starring Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Joe Pantoliano and Lea Thompson.

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Nightbreaker


Plot

Dr. Alexander Brown (played by Sheen in framing scenes and Estevez in flashbacks) reflects on his involvement in the exposure of American soldiers to radiation in the proving grounds in Nevada in the 1950s after he is approached by a man who is dying of cancer due to the tests.

Cast

  • Martin Sheen as Alexander Brown (1980s)
  • Emilio Estevez as Alexander Brown (1950s)
  • Joe Pantoliano as Sergeant Jack Russell
  • Lea Thompson as Sally Matthews
  • Melinda Dillon as Paula Brown
  • Paul Eiding as Roscoe Cummings
  • Geoffrey Blake as Python
  • James Marshall as Barney Immerman
  • References

    Nightbreaker (film) Wikipedia
    Nightbreaker (film) IMDb Nightbreaker (film) themoviedb.org