Nightbreaker (film)

Nightbreaker
Directed by	Peter Markle
Produced by	Tony Garnett
Written by	Howard L. Rosenberg and T. S. Cook
Starring	Martin Sheen Emilio Estevez Joe Pantoliano Lea Thompson
Music by	Peter Bernstein
Cinematography	Ronald Víctor García
Editing by	Stephen E. Rivkin
Distributed by	Turner Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	8 March 1989
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

Plot

Nightbreaker shows Dr. Alexander Brown (played by Sheen in framing scenes and Estevez in flashbacks) reflecting 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

External links

• Nightbreaker at the Internet Movie Database

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