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Synopsis: In 1980, the assistant of the Department of Defense Warren Lasky is assigned by his mysterious chief Richard Tideman to visit the aircraft carrier USS Nimtz commanded by Capt. Matthew Yelland as an observer of the routines. Lasky finds that Wing Commander Richard T. Owens has a great knowledge of history. Out of the blue, the vessel faces a weird storm and they find that they have traveled back in time to the eve of the attack of Pearl Harbor on 06 December 1941. When the two Japanese Zeros attack the motorboat of Senator Samuel Chapman, the crew of the Nimitz rescues the senator and his assistant Laurel Scott. But sooner Lasky learns that the senator had disappeared on that day and Capt. Matthew Yelland is planning to attack the Japanese. Will these actions create a time paradox?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Don Taylor
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino
Production: Live Home Video
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
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PG
Year:
1980
103 min
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I think we're lucky.

How's that?

At least we came back

to the same world we left.

Most of us have.

Did Commander Owens

have any family?

No one.

Lasky, you've been

a pain in the ass.

But I'm glad to have known you.

Thank you, Captain.

I appreciate that.

Good luck to you.

And you too.

Wait a minute, boy. Here, Charlie!

Charlie, come back here.

Mr. and Mrs. Tideman

would like you to join them.

Mr. Tideman?

Welcome back, Mr. Lasky.

Laurel.

Commander Owens.

Please, join us.

We have a lot to talk about.

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David Ambrose

David Ambrose (born 21 February 1943) is a British novelist and screenwriter whose credits include at least 20 Hollywood films, three stage plays, and many hours of television, including the controversial Alternative 3. He was born in Chorley, England, and attended Blackburn Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. He is married to artist Laurence Ambrose and lives in Switzerland. His screenplay for The Survivor (directed by David Hemmings) won the Best Script award at the International Film Festival of Catalonia. more…

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