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| x Poseidon |
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Poseidon is a 2006 action-adventure disaster film and the third film adaptation of The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico. It stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, and Richard Dreyfuss. It was directed by Wolfgang Petersen...
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| x Juggernaut |
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Juggernaut is a 1974 British disaster film. It was produced by David V. Picker Productions and released in 1974 by United Artists. The film was directed by Richard Lester, who took over after directors Bryan Forbes and Don Medford each left the...
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| x Beyond the Poseidon Adventure |
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is a 1979 American disaster film, a sequel to the 1972 film, The Poseidon Adventure. It was directed by Irwin Allen and starred Michael Caine and Sally Field. The film was a critical and commercial failure, highly...
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| x Skyjacked |
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Skyjacked is a 1972 disaster film starring Charlton Heston, James Brolin, and Yvette Mimieux. The film is based on the David Harper novel Hijacked.
Global Airways Flight 502—operated by a Boeing 707 -- takes off as a routine flight from Oakland,...
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| x Category 7: The End of the World |
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Category 7: The End of the World is a 2005 four-hour television film miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, the first part aired on November 6 and the second on November 13. A sequel to the 2004 miniseries Category 6...
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| x Doomsday |
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Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus. When the virus breaks out in London, political...
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| x Sunshine |
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Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission to the Sun. In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite...
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| x Crack in the World |
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Crack in the World is an American science-fiction disaster movie filmed in Spain in 1964 and released by Paramount Pictures.
An international consortium of scientists, operating as Project Inner Space, is trying to tap into the Earth's geothermal...
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| x Supervolcano |
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Supervolcano is a television docufiction film that was released by the BBC on April 10, 2005 on the Discovery Channel. It is centered on the speculated and potential eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park. Its tagline is ...
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| x Mars Attacks! |
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Mars Attacks! is a 1996 comic science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and based on the cult trading card series of the same name. The film uses elements of black comedy, surreal humour and political satire, and is also a parody of multiple...
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| x Five Came Back |
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Five Came Back is a 1939 melodrama and a precursor of the disaster film genre. A B movie with an A-level cast and crew, the film boasts direction by John Farrow, photography by renowned film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and a screenplay...
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| x The Perfect Storm |
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The Perfect Storm is a 2000 film adapted from the book of the same title by Sebastian Junger. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes, Diane...
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| x Island in the Sky |
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Island in The Sky (1953) is an aviation adventure/drama film written by Ernest K. Gann based on his novel of the same name, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring and co-produced by John Wayne. It was released by Warner Bros. Due to its...
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| x Murder on Flight 502 |
Murder On Flight 502 is a 1975 made-for-TV movie starring Robert Stack, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Sonny Bono, Danny Bonaduce, and Fernando Lamas - After a Boeing 747-100 takes off from New York City to London, a mysterious note turns up at the airport...
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| x Terror in the Sky |
Terror in the Sky is a 1971 television movie based on Arthur Hailey's book Runway Zero-Eight, which was itself based on the television play Flight into Danger. It stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Leif Erickson, Kenneth Tobey, and...
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| x Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land |
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land (re-released on video as Starflight One) is a 1983 television movie starring Lee Majors and Hal Linden. The first hypersonic transport is leaving for its inaugural flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia...
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| x World Trade Center |
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World Trade Center is a 2006 disaster drama film, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers of New York City. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and...
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| x The Andromeda Strain |
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The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 science-fiction film, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. Directed...
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| x The Stars Look Down |
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The Stars Look Down is a 1935 novel by A. J. Cronin which chronicles various injustices in an English coal mining community. A film version was produced in 1939, and television adaptations include both Italian (1971) and British (1974) versions.
The...
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| x Deluge |
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Deluge (1933) was an apocalyptic science fiction film, released by RKO Radio Pictures, about a group of worldwide natural disasters which lead to the destruction of the earth.
The film is very loosely based on a novel by S. Fowler Wright, with the...
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| x City on Fire |
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City on Fire is a 1979 disaster film directed by Alvin Rakoff and featuring an “all-star cast,” as was the custom for that time. The film’s plot revolves around a disgruntled civil servant who sets fire to an oil refinery, setting off a blaze which...
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| x The Last Voyage |
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The Last Voyage is a 1960 American action-adventure film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. The screenplay centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room.
Laurie and Cliff Henderson...
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| x When Time Ran Out |
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When Time Ran Out... is a disaster film released in 1980, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Pat Morita, Edward Albert, and...
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| x Perfect Disaster |
Perfect Disaster was a one-hour American documentary television mini-series that premiered in 2006 on the Discovery Channel. The program depicted the worst-case scenario that major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme disaster. A...
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| x Atomic Twister |
Atomic Twister was an original made for TV movie starring Sharon Lawrence and Mark-Paul Gosselaar that was first aired in 2002 on TBS. The plot revolves around a series of tornadoes that damage a nuclear reactor in a small town in western Tennessee,...
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| x The Poseidon Adventure |
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The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 action and adventure film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name.
The plot centered around the SS Poseidon, a state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town...
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| x 10.5: Apocalypse |
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10.5: Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia. A sequel to 2004's 10.5, the film follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, and sinkholes).
The plot of the...
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| x The World, the Flesh and the Devil |
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The World, The Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The star is Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. Using a science fiction premise about the end of the...
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| x Rattlers |
Rattlers is a 1975 horror film starring Sam Chew, Elisabeth Chauvet, Tony Ballen, Dan Priest, Ron Gold, Darwin Joston, and Gary Van Ormand. The film was produced and directed by John McCauley. Harry Novak was the executive producer.
When two young...
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| x Supernova |
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For the film released in 2000, see Supernova (2000 film)
Supernova is a 2005 made for television movie originally aired on Hallmark Channel. The film is a typical disaster movie and as such it had a large number of special effects. It was filmed on...
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| x When Worlds Collide |
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When Worlds Collide is a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1932 novel co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. The film was shot in Technicolor, directed by Rudolph Maté and was the winner of the 1951 Academy Award for special...
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| x Blackout Effect |
Blackout Effect (UK: 747) is a 1998 made-for-television disaster/thriller film. Eric Stoltz plays John Dantley, an NTSB officer sent to investigate a collision between an airliner and a cargo plane at O'Hare. Charles Martin Smith plays Henry Drake,...
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| x St Helens |
St. Helens, aka St. Helens, Killer Volcano, is a 1981 film directed by Ernest Pintoff and starring David Huffman, Art Carney, Cassie Yates, and Albert Salmi. The film centers on the events leading up to the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington,...
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| x A Night to Remember |
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A Night to Remember is a 1958 Golden Globe Award winning docudrama film adaptation of Walter Lord's book of the same name, recounting the final night of the RMS Titanic. It was adapted by Eric Ambler, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and filmed in the...
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| x Japan Sinks |
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Nihon Chinbotsu (日本沈没, lit. "Japan Sinks") is a 2006 Tokusatsu film directed by Shinji Higuchi, and a remake of the 1973 screenplay based on the Komatsu novel. It stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibasaki, Etsushi Toyokawa, and Mao Daichi, and was...
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| x Tycus |
Tycus is a 1998 direct-to-video movie starring Dennis Hopper, Peter Onorati, Finola Hughes, Alexander Cleir and others. It has been released in 2000, in the United Kingdom, France and the United States.
In 1989 Peter Crawford, an astronomer,...
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| x Atlantic |
Atlantic is a 1929 British black and white film, directed and produced by Ewald André Dupont and starring Franklin Dyall and Madeleine Carroll. Three versions were made, one in the United Kingdom, one in Germany, and one in France (Atlantis, 1930)....
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| x Ekipazh |
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Air Crew (Russian: Экипаж, translit. Ekipazh) is a movie produced by Mosfilm in 1979. It was the first catastrophe movie shot in the Soviet Union.
The movie was directed by Alexander Mitta and consists of two parts with total time 143 minutes. It...
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| x Britannic |
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Britannic is a romantic drama film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It stars Edward Atterton and Amanda Ryan as star-crossed lovers on the forgotten sister ship of the RMS Titanic, the HMHS Britannic. The film's co-stars include Jacqueline Bisset,...
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| x Adrenalin: Fear the Rush |
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Adrenalin: Fear the Rush is a science-fiction/action film made in 1996, but set in 2007. The Soviet Union has collapsed and Russia is in dismay. Out of this chaos an unknown virus covers the earth and eventually the United States.
The movie starts...
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| x Avalanche Express |
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Avalanche Express is a film adaptation of a novel by Colin Forbes, released in 1979. It starred Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Maximilian Schell and Linda Evans, and was directed by Mark Robson. Both Shaw and Robson died during production which was in...
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| x Tornado! |
Tornado! is a made for TV movie starring Bruce Campbell and Shannon Sturges, released on May 7, 1996. It was written by John Logan and directed by Noel Nosseck.
The movie's main character is storm chaser Jake Thorne (Bruce Campbell), whose friend Dr...
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| x On the Beach |
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On the Beach (1959) is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name featuring Gregory Peck (USS Sawfish captain Dwight Lionel Towers), Ava Gardner (Moira Davidson), Fred Astaire (scientist Julian – John in the...
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| x Magma: Volcanic Disaster |
Magma: Volcanic Disaster is a 2006 made for television film by Sci Fi Pictures. Written by Rebecca Rian and directed by Ian Gilmour, the film stars Xander Berkeley and Amy Jo Johnson. As with many Sci Fi movies, it was filmed in Bulgaria.
A...
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| x Japan Sinks |
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Nihon Chinbotsu (日本沈没, lit. "Japan Sinks" or "Submersion of Japan") is a 1973 film directed by Shiro Moritani. The film stars Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Ayumi Ishida and is based on the novel published the same year written by Sakyo Komatsu....
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| x Cloverfield |
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Cloverfield is a 2008 American monster movie directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.
The film follows five young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city....
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| x The Last Man |
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The Last Man is a 2002 film by Harry Ralston starring David Arnott and Jeri Ryan.
Alan (Arnott) comes to believe that he is the last person on Earth after some sort of apocalypse destroyed the human race. However, he soon meets the beautiful Sarah ...
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| x Scorcher |
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Scorcher is a 2002 science fiction disaster film directed by James Seale and starring Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Jeffrey Johnson, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston and Rutger Hauer. It was first released in the USA in 2002. It concerns a group of...
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| x Flood |
Flood is a disaster film directed by Tony Mitchell. It features Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, David Suchet and Tom Courtenay, and is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard Doyle.
The film depicts a devastating flood which strikes...
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| x Fate Is the Hunter |
Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 film about the crash of an airliner and the subsequent investigation. It was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 novel of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result, he asked...
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| x Solar Attack |
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Solar Attack (also called Solar Strike) is a 2005 direct-to-video film by Lions Gate Entertainment.
It concerns large coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that cause the Earth's atmosphere to burn, potentially suffocating all life on Earth. All of this...
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| x The Volcano Disaster |
The Volcano Disaster (also called Volcano: Nature Unleashed or Nature Unleashed: Volcano) is a 2004 Bulgarian direct-to-video film by First Look Studios.
The film concerns a volcanologist who learns of an impending eruption at an Italian town and...
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| x Descent |
Descent is a 2005 original film on the Sci Fi Channel.
Oil drilling causes the Earth's crust to sink, pushing the magma up. A crew must detonate nuclear weapons underground and push the crust back into its proper position.
The film's plot has been...
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Passengers is 2008 thriller film starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson, and directed by Rodrigo Garcia. It was released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on October 24, 2008.
Psychotherapist Claire Summers (Hathaway) is called upon to...
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| x Disaster Movie |
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Disaster Movie is a 2008 comedy film spoofing disaster movies. In the year 10,001 BC, a caveman encounters a sabre-toothed Amy Winehouse, who prophesies that humanity will be extinct on August 29, 2008, and an orange crystal skull is somehow...
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| x Hindenburg disaster |
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The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday 6 May 1937 as the LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within one minute while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the...
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| x Disaster |
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A disaster is the tragedy of a natural or human-made hazard (a hazard is a situation which poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment) that negatively affects society or environment.
In contemporary academia, disasters are...
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| x What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? | ||
| x Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. | ||
| x The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal. | ||
