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Special Bulletin
Why this pick
A rigorously staged network-news interruption that makes an escalating national emergency feel alarmingly immediate through anchors, remote reports, and official uncertainty.
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MOVIE1994 1h 40m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Broadcast eleven years after a similar program, ''Special Bulletin'', ''Without Warning'' starts in an identical fashion, with the beginning of "regular programming", in this case the opening of a murder mystery film with the title ''Without Warning'', starring Loni Anderson (appearing in a cameo). Within moments, however, the program is interrupted with a news bulletin of a series of three earthquakes, one of them located in the Thunder Basin area of Wyoming. The "movie" resumes but a few moments later is interrupted for good as coverage begins of a Halloween night meteor impact on the United States.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sander Vanocur
Himself
Bree Walker
Herself (as Bree Walker Lampley)
John de Lancie
Barry Steinbrenner
Philip Baker Hall
Dr. Kurt Lowden
Gina Hecht
Barbara Shiller
Brian McNamara
Mike Curtis
Jane Kaczmarek
Dr. Caroline Jaffe
James Morrison
Paul Whitaker