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Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1996 · 120 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Robert Mandel
- Starring
- Richard Schiff, Rosalind Chao, Keith Carradine, Alfre Woodard, Dean Jones, Christine Estabrook
As the world’s first spacecraft nears Mars, the TV network GNN begins a live, two‑hour broadcast of the mission’s final stage. Suddenly the landing computer fails, Captain Eugene T. Slader becomes gravely ill, and on Earth investigators uncover that powerful financial corporations stand to profit from the mission’s failure. All of these crises unfold in real time for the watching audience.
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