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Acceptable Risks

  • Drama
  • TV Movie

March 2, 1986 (US)

1h 32m

A disaster beyond imagination... and they said it could never happen.

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made-for-TV disaster film. It all begins when the owners of Citichem order the plant manager to enact dangerous cost cuts that comprom...

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