Blackout Effect

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Blackout Effect
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Produced by Anthony Santa Croce
Written by Matthew Bombeck
Starring Eric Stoltz
Charles Martin Smith
Leslie Hope
Music by Gary Chang
Cinematography Alan Caso
Editing by Geoffrey Rowland
Distributed by NBC
Release date(s) January 4, 1998
Running time 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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Blackout Effect is a 1998 made-for-television disaster/thriller film. Eric Stoltz plays John Dantley, an NTSB officer sent to investigate a collision between an airliner and a cargo plane at O'Hare. Charles Martin Smith plays Henry Drake, an air traffic controller who insists his radar system malfunctioned when the planes were getting cleared for landing. When the rest of ATC dismiss Drake and blame the incident on human error, Dantley must discover the truth about the crash. Blackout Effect was originally broadcast on NBC on January 4, 1998. Another name for the movie credited for in the UK is '747'

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Actor/Actress Role
Eric Stoltz John Dantley
Charles Martin Smith Henry Drake
Denis Arndt Frank Wyatt
Leslie Hope Karen
Lorraine Toussaint Kim Garfield
Andy Comeau Tim Connors
Tucker Smallwood Harold

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