Nightbreaker (film)

Nightbreaker
Genre	Drama
Written by	Howard L. Rosenberg and T. S. Cook
Directed by	Peter Markle
Starring	Martin Sheen Emilio Estevez Joe Pantoliano Lea Thompson
Music by	Peter Bernstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Jeffrey Auerbach Martin Sheen
Producers	William R. Greenblatt Linda Berman (supervising producer)
Cinematography	Ronald Víctor García
Editor	Stephen E. Rivkin
Running time	99 minutes
Production companies	Symphony Pictures World International Network
Original release
Network	TNT
Release	March 8, 1989 (1989-03-08)

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. Originally it was personally chosen for production by Ted Turner to kick off his fledgling network TNT. Nightbreaker won the Houston Film Festival grand prize and was a Cable Ace nominee for Best Picture in 1990. It also won the 1990 Writer's Guild Award for best Made for Television Movie.

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

External links

• Nightbreaker at IMDb