Impulse

Name: Impulse
Director: Graham Baker
Released: 1984-01-01

1984 film directed by Graham Baker

FilmfilmQ6007948

Released: 1984
Director: Graham Baker
Screenwriter: Don Carlos Dunaway
, Nicholas Kazan
Producer: Tim Zinnemann
Cast: Tim Matheson
, Meg Tilly
, Hume Cronyn
, Bill Paxton
Runtime: 91 min
Genre: science fiction film
, disaster film
Country of origin: United States

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Impulse is a 1984 American science fiction thriller film directed by Graham Baker and starring Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly and Hume Cronyn. The film's plot is about the residents of a small rural town who start to exhibit strange and violent behavior after a small earthquake ruptures the seal on a toxic waste burial site.

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Title: Impulse
Color: color
Medierådet rating: Prohibited for children under 16
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1.Stated in Danish Film Database
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Review score: 33%(October 9, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 6 critic review
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Impulse”Retrieved 2021-10-09
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4.3/10(October 9, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Impulse”Retrieved 2021-10-09
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Director of photography: Thomas Del Ruth
Film editor: David Holden

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