The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
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John Heard Christopher Lloyd Bob Gunton Mark Metcalf Bruce Gray Frank C. Turner Jo Bates Walter Marsh John Maclaren Marek Czuma Susan Astley Lochlyn Munro Wally Dalton Ron Frazier Remak Ramsay Malcolm Stewart Richard Sargent Tom McBeath Forbes Angus Patricia Dahlquist Don S. Davis Paul Guilfoyle Gary Reineke Eric Keenleyside Andrew Wheeler Michael Patten J. B. Bivens Rip Torn Michael Murphy Kenneth Welsh Peter Yunker Myron Natwick Alex Bruhanski Bill Dow Ken Camroux-Taylor Leslie Carlson Jackson Davies Philip Granger Peter LaCroix Peg Christopherson Nathan Vanering Anthony Ulc Dwight McFee David Morse Timothy Webber Tamsin Kelsey Michael J Rogers Danny Virtue Meredith Bain Woodward Pamela Martin Kathi Goertzen Barry Judge Gary Justice Sam Shields Sonja Bakker Jeff Rechner Leigh Morrow Peter Anderson Karen Elizabeth Austin Tom Heaton Hilary Strang Bill Croft Lloyd Berry Adrien Dorval Kevin Hayes
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