10 Movies With Surprising Real World Consequences

On March 16th 1979, a film called The China Syndrome came out. In it, Jane Fonda played a journalist investigating a nuclear power plant when, suddenly, the facility goes into meltdown.

There's a line in the movie that says this could "render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable”.

Why is that important? Because, on the 28th March 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant actually went into meltdown.

Where was Three Mile Island? Pennsylvania!

You couldn't make it up.

The film already had an anti-nuclear agenda before the incident; star Jane Fonda was firmly and famously opposed to the idea. However, its proximity to a real-life disaster led many others to change their stance on the subject.

Co-star Michael Douglas described his revelation as "a religious awakening", whilst The China Syndrome also made believers out of prominent campaigner Tom Hayden and media mogul Ted Turner.

Few could have expected the immediate impact The China Syndrome would have on the world. It actually seems too good to be true... maybe it is?

Has anyone looked into what Fonda was up to on the 28th? Was she in Pennsylvania by any chance?