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By Dawn's Early Light

Four people... Three minutes... Two choices... One chance for survival.

1990 · PG · 1h 41m

Directed by Jack Sholder

6.5

TMDB audience score
73 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.

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Cast

  • Powers Boothe
    Cassidy

  • Rebecca De Mornay
    Moreau

  • James Earl Jones
    Alice

  • Martin Landau
    President

  • Darren McGavin
    Condor

  • Rip Torn
    Colonel Fargo

  • Jeffrey DeMunn
    Harpoon

  • Peter MacNicol
    Sedgwick

  • Glenn Withrow
    Tyler

  • Ronald William Lawrence
    Hooker

  • Kieran Mulroney
    Radnor

  • Nicolas Coster
    Icarus

  • Ken Jenkins
    Sam

  • Randal Patrick
    O'Toole

  • Daniel Benzali
    Bascombe

  • Robert O'Reilly
    FEMA Radioman

  • Annabella Price
    FEMA Bunker Nurse

  • Ann Gillespie
    Marie