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Fail Safe

2000 · 86 min

A taut, claustrophobic live broadcast that plays like a countdown to unavoidable doom, with dialogue-driven tension and a devastating moral weight.

Overview
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • morality
  • power
  • death
  • fate
Places
  • military
  • workplace
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • procedural
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour0
Realism8
Romance0
Tension9
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, thriller, tv movie
Directed by
Stephen Frears
Written by
Walter Bernstein
Starring
Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle, Brian Dennehy, Sam Elliott, James Cromwell, John Diehl, Hank Azaria
Cinematography
John A. Alonzo
Runtime
86 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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