A Prayer for Rain (2014)

6.3/10 • 103 min • History Drama

Overview

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.

Cast

Martin Sheen

Warren Anderson

Mischa Barton

Kal Penn

Rajpal Yadav

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Joy Sengupta

Lisa Dwan

Satish Kaushik

Manoj Joshi

Martin Brambach

David Brooks

Kailash Kher

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