Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Released: September 13, 1992Runtime: 91 min
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
as Dan Lawn - State of Alaska
Bob Gunton
as Larry Dietrick - State of Alaska
Mark Metcalf
as Dennis Kelso - State of Alaska
Bruce Gray
as Governor Steve Cowper - State of Alaska
Jo Bates
as Michelle Brown - State of Alaska
Walter Marsh
as John Janssen - State of Alaska
John Maclaren
as Al Kegler - State of Alaska
Marek Czuma
as Jim Hayden - State of Alaska
Susan Astley
as Jan Jackson - State of Alaska
Lochlyn Munro
as Trooper Mike Fox - State of Alaska
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