Name: Burn the Butterflies
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-10-14
Duration: 1 h 17 min
Cast: Ray Barrett, Frederick Parslow, Gerard Maguire

Competent rather than compelling drama.

Ray Barrett plays the unfortunate Australian Prime Minister, whose opposition numbers seek to capitalise on his party's nuclear policies after the meltdown of a Scottish atomic reactor. His Government are forced into partial back-down after the predictable questions of "what if" comes into play.

Made just seven years before the real-time Chernobyl reactor disaster, it was a period when uncontrolled nuclear fission was a major public concern, especially in Sydney where the Lucas Heights reactor has long been a public "enemy."

Cliff Green handed in an excellent script and performances are uniformly good. If you can find this on VHS. give it a go!

The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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