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Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 20, 1983

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

TV Movie, Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

Special Bulletin

Production Companies

NBC, Ohlmeyer Communications Company

Director

Edward Zwick

Description

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.