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"Y2K"

Sunday, November 21 on NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

"Y2K," a two-hour suspense thriller starring Ken Olin ("L.A. Doctors," "Easy Streets") as a Y2K trouble-shooter trying to save the world from catastrophic disaster on the eve of the new millenium.

Joe Morton ("The Astronaut's Wife" with Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp), Kate Vernon ("John Woo's 'Blackjack'"), Lauren Tom ("Friends") and Ronny Cox ("Deep Blue Sea," "Forces of Nature") also star.

Dick Lowry ("Mr. Murder;" NBC's "In the Line of Duty" movie franchise) directs from a screenplay by Thomas Hines and Jonathan Fernandez ("Crisis in the Kremlin"). David Israel, executive producer of last season's critically acclaimed NBC movie, "Mutiny," and the four-hour NBC thriller, "Pandora's Clock," the third highest-rated miniseries (behind "Asteroid" and "The Odyssey") of the 1997-98 season, is executive producer of the presentation from NBC Studios.

Nick Cromwell (Olin) is a complex systems failure expert, an independent consultant working on the government's "Z2" (think zero, zero) project to insure that the country is Y2K compliant. As the minutes tick down to the new millenium, a concerned Nick counsels caution, persuading his boss, Martin Lowell (Morton), who heads up the program, to ground all planes before midnight. As Nick watches and waits, clocks around the world begin to strike 12 a.m., bringing the United States closer to learning what the Y2K bug is all about.

As the millenium dawns in North America, most of the Eastern Seaboard suffers a major power outage. But the worst is yet to come. Nick must stay ahead of the unpredictable Y2K bug as it spreads across the United States threatening everyone, including his own family on the West Coast. While simple computer error is at the heart of the potentially catastrophic problems, Nick must use old-fashioned ingenuity if he is to save the day in this race-against-time action adventure.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), November 02, 1999

Answers

Sounds cool. Think I'll watch it.

-- 8 (8@8.com), November 02, 1999.

I think we'll all end up watching it...

-- LauraA (Laadedah@aol.com), November 02, 1999.

... note to self - have all preps done by November 20th.

-- Dan G (earth_changes@hotmail.com), November 02, 1999.

Good idea, Dan.

-- Linda A. (adahi@muhlon.com), November 02, 1999.

I can't remember the title, but there was a movie out, possible a made for tee-vee movie, about a community that was suffering through a long power outage that seemed like it was endless.

It was really interesting to see how some people reacted when they thought the police were all gone and since there was no power to run the house alarms everyone was nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

One guy, (the neighbor of the main characters), shot a young man trying to rob the main characters house. Since 911 was not working the boy lay there for a while. The neighbor even went as far as to put a cheap gun in his hand to make it look like self defense.

Well, as luck would haave it the power came back on suddebly, and Mr. Trigger Finger was all of a sudden plunged BACK into the world of law and order, where he had to suffer the consequences for his actions that he had thought would never happen.

There were some other really good points in that movie about human behaviour in a time of crisis, and what the penalty is when the crisis is over.

I wish I could remember the name but all I can think of is "The Day The Lights Went Out". Maybe someone else remembers too?

-- (parakeet@in.a different cage), November 02, 1999.

The movie you mentioned is "The Trigger Effect" and it's available at your nearest video store.

It's a thought-provoking image of what minor piss-offs we endure all the time (but don't act upon)... and what happens when the all the rules go out the window.

Don't get me wrong - it's not an incredibly good movie by any means - but it is a good mind exercise (the major benefit of fiction in preparation - it opens the mind to possibilities - not facts, but possibilities). There was a long thread awhile back on movies and books that do just this. Dunno if that thread was saved, and under what title...

-- Hugh (hewiggins@mindspring.com), November 02, 1999.

The name of the movie is TRIGGER EFFECT

-- Humberto (atuel@home.com), November 02, 1999.

Sounds a little like the Twilight Zone episode where one street lost all power, no cars, telephone, etc. Everyone went a little bonkers accusing eachother of being aliens. And, of course, I think someone got killed. Then everything came back on, and the aliens talked among themselves saying how easy it would be to take over the world. Or something to that effect. They did a sort of remake of that episode on First Wave, a show on the SciFi channel.

I seriously think that if any country is contemplating war against another country, the first week in January would be the time to strike. I don't know if I believe that Russia or China will attack the US, but I do consider other countries, maybe Pakistan and India or China and Taiwan or Japan, to have an exchange. Of course, if we are able to do it, we will end up being involved in it too. What do you (all) think?

-- Darla (dnice@hgo.net), November 02, 1999.