When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Acting
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s simmering intensity before his Oscar moment.
Production
Cramped industrial sets that scream made-for-cable ambition.
Director
Stephen Tolkin
Moira Kelly
Blue
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Torch
Martha Plimpton
Laurie
Omar Epps
Hunter
Alice Drummond
Anna
David Eigenberg
Bucky
John Cameron Mitchell
Lennie
Deirdre O'Connell
Mom
Willie Garson
Simon
Mark Boone Junior
Quarantine Guard
Jon Seda
Payne
Tim Guinee
OHH Officer
Phil Hartman
Man in Abstinence Commercial
John Savage
The President
Novella Nelson
Mrs. Chaney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the AIDS crisis, the plague-as-metaphor reads radically differently now post-COVID.
Stephen Tolkin also wrote The Punisher (1989) and Masters of the Universe—this is his most coherent vision of systemic evil.
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