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Deep Core
Release Date	June 14, 2000 (Australia -video)
Genre	Science Fiction
Director	Rodney McDonald
Screenwriter	Jim Christopher Phillip J. Roth
Stars	Craig Sheffer Terry Farrell Bruce McGill Harry Van Gorkum Wil Wheaton James Russo Ron Yuan James Lew Kenneth Choi
Studio	Paramount Pictures

Deep Core is a 2000 sci fi disaster film directed by Rodney McDonald. The film did not receive a theatrical release in the united states and was released directly to video.

Plot

Craig Sheffer plays scientist Robert Goodman, who is fired after confronting his boss about their Deep Core project, a digging machine able to tunnel through rock with the aid of lasers. Some years later, while working in the oil industry he learns of an island transformed into a volcano thanks to the use of the Deep Core Machine. He believes the instability caused by the machine will continue to spread causing volcanic eruptions on larger scales. Naturally, the only way to stop disaster is with the use of nuclear weapons set to explode deep underground.

Gaining access to nuclear weapons proves remarkably easy and Goodman undertakes a plan to save the planet with backing by Chinese financiers and the help of a team of experts which includes womanizing explosives expert Rodney Bedecker (Wil Wheaton) and scientist Allison Saunders (Terry Farrell). He suspects the motives of their financiers when the vehicle that they will use to transport the nukes proves especially designed to do just that.

External Links

• Deep Core at Internet Movie Database
• Deep Core at MRQE.com

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