Chain Reaction
Directed by	Andrew Davis
Produced by	Andrew Davis Keanu Reeves
Starring	Keanu Reeves Rachel Weisz Morgan Freeman Fred Ward
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	2 August 1996 (premiere)
Running time	106 min.
Language	English
Budget	USD$55,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

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Plot

Eddie (Reeves) and Lily (Weisz) are part of a research team that has made a discovery of bubble fusion. One evening, Eddie returns to the lab late to find that his boss has been murdered and his experiment has been rigged to produce enough hydrogen gas to explode with the force of a small atomic bomb. Eddie flees the scene, and soon learns that he and Lily have been set up by someone who doesn't want their breakthrough discovery to become public. Soon upon investigation the police find $250,000 in Eddie's name and suspect that he has murdered his boss and triggered the bomb blast. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

Film Production

Large portions of the film were shot on location in and around Chicago, Illinois, including the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Michigan Avenue. There are also scenes that are shot at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin and on Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin. In addition, there were also scenes filmed at Inland Steel (now known as MITTAL Steel) which is located in East Chicago, Indiana. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... Aerial photo of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. ... A view from the lagoon behind the Museum of Science and Industry, the only in-place surviving building from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition and a National Historic Landmark. ... Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago The Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex known as Museum Campus Chicago. ... Michigan Avenue refers to remnants of Old U.S. Highway 12 that ran from downtown Detroit to Chicago. ... 1897 photo of the 102 cm (40 inch) refractor at the Yerkes Observatory. ... Williams Bay is a village located in Walworth County, Wisconsin. ... -1... East Chicago is a city in Lake County, Indiana, opposite Chicago, Illinois. ...

Reviews

According to the website Rotten Tomatoes, only 7% of major movie reviews of the movie Chain Reaction were favorable. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

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