Scorcher (film)

Scorcher
Scorcher
	Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release date	October 4, 2002;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Scorcher is a 2002

nuclear accident, that the Earth's tectonic plates are shifting and creating immense pressure that will destroy the Earth in a fiery global eruption

, and a few top scientists must find a way to stop it.

Plot

Renegade soldier Colonel Ryan Beckett (

Earth's core

, which threatens to bring "Hell on Earth" in just three days.

Beckett assembles a crack team to deliver and detonate not one, but two

nuclear bombs that must go off simultaneously in the only place on the planet in which they will do any good at stopping the movement of the plates—Los Angeles

. The city is evacuated in a panic, but Beckett's teen daughter (Rayne Marcus) is abducted by a religious-fanatic pyromaniac, and Beckett must save her before he saves the world. Meanwhile, Beckett strikes up a romance with Julie (Tamara Davies), a scientist on his team, who is having a feud with her scientist father (John Rhys-Davies), also on the team.

They are unaware that on the squad is the evil Kellaway (Mark Rolston), who hates Beckett so much, he would let the planet blow up just to kill him. In the end, Faith (Beckett's daughter) manages to get her hands on a cell phone and text messages him an SOS. Julie and he head to rescue her, and Beckett kills her insane kidnapper.

They need to find a hole deep enough to drop the device down a few hundred feet, and Faith knows of one in a subway station. They head there, but meanwhile, Kellaway murders the rest of the team (except the pilot, who is waiting at the airport to fly them to safety) and comes to stop them. Beckett ends up throwing him down the shaft with the device.

Beckett, Julie, and Faith head outside and are shocked to find that the pilot of the team has landed a presidential jet in the middle of the road. He was ordered to wait there for Kellaway, and flies them to safety as the two devices go off, destroying Los Angeles and stopping the movement of the plates just before it is too late.

Cast

Mark Dacascos as Colonel Ryan Beckett
Tamara Davies as Julie McGrath
John Rhys-Davies as Dr. Matthew Sallin
Mark Rolston as Special Agent Kellaway
Rutger Hauer as President Nelson
Cathleen Kaelyn as Tara Beckett
Rayne Marcus as Faith Beckett
G.W. Bailey
as General Timothy Moore
Thomas F. Duffy as Anderson
Michael Jace as MacVaughn
Jeffrey Johnson as Styles
Billy Maddox as Norris
Alex Datcher
as Janet Hill
Ivonne Coll as Mayor Salizar
Josh Hammond as Matt
Beth Riesgraf as Chrissy
Sam Lloyd as "Fingers"
Joel West as "Zero"

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