The China Syndrome (1979)
James Bridges' 1979 nuclear plant near-meltdown. Released twelve days before Three Mile Island.
Actor: Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda won Best Actress for Klute and Coming Home, the former playing a call girl whose therapy sessions the film uses as narration.
Her 1972 visit to North Vietnam, and a photograph taken on an anti-aircraft gun, produced a hostility that has followed her for fifty years and which she has repeatedly apologised for. Barbarella, They Shoot Horses Don’t They and 9 to 5 fill out the range, and her exercise videos were a genuine cultural phenomenon.
