# Der große Stromausfall - Eine Stadt im Ausnahmezustand (1996)

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**Original title**: *The Trigger Effect*
**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: David Koepp
**Written by**: David Koepp
**Starring**: Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Richard T. Jones, Bill Smitrovich, Michael Rooker

> *When Nothing Works, Anything Goes.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight, a grid-wide hum. The lights die. A single battery-powered radio crackles with static.

Three strangers barricade themselves indoors, rationing dwindling food and cash. The city outside erupts in sirens, then in gunfire.

Lumet’s *Dog Day Afternoon* meets *The Twilight Zone* with a suburban edge.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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