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Starring
Radha Mitchell, Paddy Considine, Oscar Isaac, Steven Berkoff

Director
Scott Z. Burns

Year
2007

Genre
Drama

Synopsis
Paddy Considine and Radha Mitchell star in this poignant drama as a devoted father and husband in post-Soviet Russia who labours in a deteriorating nuclear plant. After being exposed to a deadly dose of radiation while trying to avert a plant disaster, he is made a scapegoat and suspended without pay. With just days to live and desperate to provide for his loving wife (Mitchell) and young son, he impulsively steals a small amount of Pu-239 (weapons grade plutonium) and heads to Moscow to attempt a quick sale.

He subsequently gets caught up with the city's low-level mobsters and the illegal trade of nuclear weapons, turning to an inept, wannabe gangster (Oscar Isaac) to help him sell the dangerous goods on the black market - with potentially deadly consequences for the whole world.

TRIVIA:
Plutonium-239 is an isotope of plutonium and is one of the three fissile isotopes used for the production of nuclear weapons and in nuclear reactors as a source of energy.

Weapons-grade means that a substance is pure enough to be used to make a weapon or has properties that make it suitable for weapons use.

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