It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight, the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the U.S.
Practical Effects
Gloriously dated Y2K panic props and beige computers.
Acting
Joe Morton doing Shakespeare in a disaster movie.
Director
Dick Lowry
Ken Olin
Nick Cromwell
Joe Morton
Martin Lowell
Zack Ward
Rick Rothman
Ronny Cox
Benjamin Cromwell
Kate Vernon
Alix Cromwell
Jane McGregor
Kelly Cromwell
Terence Kelly
Roy Jenkins
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Sally McDonald
Jud Tylor
Jane Bowman
Lauren Tom
Ann Lee
Robert Moloney
Caldwell Stone
Rex Linn
Nuclear Plant Foreman
Inday Ba
Michael David Simms
Colin Cunningham
Ross Singer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on NBC two months before the actual Y2K, capitalizing on genuine public anxiety that cost the US an estimated $100 billion in prevention efforts.
Director Dick Lowry also made 'Atomic Train' and 'Category 6: Day of Destruction'—this man built a career on made-for-TV disasters.
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