Movie
Chain Reaction
Overview
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-08-02
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Action, Science Fiction
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Chicago Pacific Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, The Zanuck Company, 3 Arts Entertainment
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Keanu Reeves as Eddie Kasalivich
- Morgan Freeman as Paul Shannon
- Rachel Weisz as Dr. Lily Sinclair
- Fred Ward as FBI Agent Leon Ford
- Kevin Dunn as FBI Agent Doyle
- Brian Cox as Lyman Earl Collier
- Joanna Cassidy as Maggie McDermott
- Chelcie Ross as Ed Rafferty
- Nicholas Rudall as Dr. Alistair Barkley
- Tzi Ma as Lu Chen
- Krzysztof Pieczyński as Lucasz Screbneski
- Julie Pearl as Emily Pearl
Crew
- Andrew Davis - Director
- Michael Bortman - Screenplay
- J.F. Lawton - Screenplay
- Arne Schmidt - Story
- Rick Seaman - Story
- Josh Friedman - Story
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