The ridiculous exaggeration of the state of mental hospitals led to a landmark ACLU lawsuit, with the yellow journalism assistance of Geraldo Rivera, which "won" the "freedom" of mental patients, who were then released en masse to become a nuclear explosion of "The Homeless" on the streets of every city in the 1980s.
Michael Douglas may be a suave actor but as a producer he has been a demon to this nation with his twin propaganda films - this film, and the absurdist paranoid film "The China Syndrome" that led America to stop its nuclear energy expansion cold.
Most movies are fake caricatures of real life. Unfortunately too many think it is real life. Very few movies ring true
Jack Nicholson.
I had never heard of the move “the China syndrome”
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