The Trigger Effect

The big power failure - A city under siege is a 1996 thriller produced by David Koepp. The plot is based on the U.S. television series "Connections".

Action

The couple Matthew and Annie lives with her ​​young daughter in a suburb of Los Angeles. One evening they are being harassed in the cinema by two African- Americans, then they change the seats. On the same night, as they are back home, the power goes out throughout Los Angeles. The next day, Matt wants to pick up the much needed medication for his daughter, but because he can produce no prescription, he is rejected by the pharmacist. Since they will not help you in the hospital, he decides ado, medicine stealing from the pharmacy.

Later in the day the nuclear family gets a visit from an old friend, Joe. Since it has come since the power failure throughout the city to plunder, they buy to protect a shotgun. The following night, they are surprised by a burglar, but which is found and shot by her neighbors.

Finally, there's no telling when the power is restored, decided to Annie's parents will be driving. When they take a break on the ride, they surprise a man sleeping in his car, which obviously has a breakdown. The driver is now asking for a ride. Since Joe but sees that he is armed, it will bring the shotgun out of the car, but is then shot by another man. This steals their car and their provisions, but emphasizes that he really wanted to just ride along.

Then Matt makes walking on the way to the next house, which is about an hour away. There he meets again one of the two men out of the cinema and thought now that this is not his house. He asks for the car of the man, but this offers more than food they. Matthew brings his shotgun and then breaks into the house. He, however, made ​​by man and it turns out that it is actually the homeowner. You now go together to Annie and Joe, which is then transported away from the ambulance.

Reviews

  • Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the thriller is intelligent. He wrote that the film shows that the technology did the people Isolated.

This and That

The thriller was shot in Los Alamitos, California and Sacramento, California. Its production cost about $ 8,000,000.

Screenplay Film score James Newton Howard Newton Thomas Sigel
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