A strange structure (the film's, not the bridge) breaks down this extremely long two part TV movie that mixes needless soap opera with a strange disaster, the collapse of a bridge that reopened before it was properly inspected. a bunch of total strangers are stranded on the bridge, and to a prologue, we get to see what happened with them right before and then few flashbacks that spend time showing what has been happening with them in the recent past.
There's a well dressed bank robber (Desi Arnaz Jr.) being chased by the cops, his girlfriend (Eve Plumb) being used by him as a shield, and the oldest baby daddy ever (Leslie Nielsen) running around with his mistress (Barbara Rush) while trying to get his son to the hospital while his much younger wife is out and about. It seems to be ten years past it's selling date (having been on the shelf for four years), and none of the individual soapy storylines are particularly interesting. This easily could have been edited down to 90 minutes and be another okay time-filler, but producer Irwin Allen went for the epic and failed.
There's a well dressed bank robber (Desi Arnaz Jr.) being chased by the cops, his girlfriend (Eve Plumb) being used by him as a shield, and the oldest baby daddy ever (Leslie Nielsen) running around with his mistress (Barbara Rush) while trying to get his son to the hospital while his much younger wife is out and about. It seems to be ten years past it's selling date (having been on the shelf for four years), and none of the individual soapy storylines are particularly interesting. This easily could have been edited down to 90 minutes and be another okay time-filler, but producer Irwin Allen went for the epic and failed.