Dillan Johansen is a disorganized transit authority supervisor suffering from a serious personal tragedy. Dillan's bravery is put to the test the day a major earthquake hits Los Angeles and traps Dillan in an underground tunnel with a handful of subway riders. Dillan works underground to save the panicked citizens from raging fire, rushing water, and a secret cache of toxic chemicals.
Practical Effects
Actual subway sets that look expensive for exactly four minutes.
Acting
Roy Scheider elevating material that absolutely did not deserve him.
Director
Jean Pellerin
Roy Scheider
Stan Marshall
Ted McGinley
Dillon Johansen
Ken Olandt
Deputy Mayor John Ellis
Ursula Brooks
Savanna
Adam Wylie
Newton Warner
Jaime Bergman
Suzy
Mark Kiely
Griffin
Anne Lockhart
Mrs. Warner
Duane Davis
CTA Worker Ford
Julie Brown
Connie Spheres
Allison Dunbar
Reporter
Pepe Serna
Herman Ortiz
Marc McClure
Samuel White
Troy Evans
Repo Man
William O'Leary
Head of Security
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a TBS original movie, which explains the budget and the Ted McGinley of it all.
Released four years before The Day After Tomorrow, this is basically what studio executives thought disaster movies were before Emmerich proved they could be $200 million affairs.
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