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Solar Crisis
Directed byRichard C. Sarafian
Screenplay byJoe Gannon
Crispan Bolt
Produced byRichard Edlund
James Nelson
StarringTim Matheson
Charlton Heston
Peter Boyle
Annabel Schofield
Corin Nemec
Jack Palance
CinematographyRussell Carpenter
Edited byRichard Trevor
Music byMaurice Jarre
Production
companies
Gakken Co. Ltd.
Japan America Picture Company
Distributed byBridge Entertainment Group
Trimark Pictures
Vidmark Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment (current)
Release date
1990
Running time
111 min
Japan:118 min (director's cut)
CountryJapan/USA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$55,000,000 (estimated)

Solar Crisis is a 1990 science fiction film from Japan America Picture Company. The screenplay was written by Joe Gannon and Tedi Sarafian (credited as Crispan Bolt, Tedi is the director's son), based on the novel Kuraishisu niju-goju nen by Takeshi Kawata, and directed by Richard C. Sarafian credited as Alan Smithee. The cast featured Tim Matheson as Steve Kelso, Charlton Heston as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso, Peter Boyle as Arnold Teague, Annabel Schofield as Alex Noffe, Corin Nemec as Mike Kelso and Jack Palance as Travis. The executive producers were Takeshi Kawata and Takehito Sadamura, with Richard Edlund and veteran sound editor James Nelson as its producers.

This film received a MPAA rating of PG-13, and was filmed in color with Dolby SR stereo sound. The budget is estimated to have been about $55,000,000. It had a very limited theatrical release.

Plot summary

A huge solar flare is predicted to irradiate the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a backup if the Artificial Intelligence fails) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO Teague thinks the flare will not happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperature rises, Steve's father Admiral 'Skeet' Kelso is searching the desert for Steve's son Mike who has gone AWOL to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the guys from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.

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