Watch Fail-Safe (1964) together, long-distance
political thriller film · thriller film · 112 min
Open in HeraeAbout the film
Fail Safe is a 1964 American Cold War political thriller film directed and produced by Sidney Lumet, adapted by Walter Bernstein from the 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It stars an ensemble cast, featuring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dana Elcar, Dom DeLuise and Sorrell Booke. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of U.S. bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop the bomber group before it can deploy a nuclear first strike. The film was released by Columbia Pictures on October 7, 1964. It was a commercial disappointment, but was well-received by critics. In 2000, the novel was adapted again as a televised play, and broadcast live in black-and-white on CBS.
Where it streams
How to watch it together from different places
Each of you opens Fail-Safe on your own account. Herae keeps the two players in sync, so a pause or a skip happens for both of you, and puts a video call in the corner of the film so you can see each other react.
How watching together long-distance works
Title details from Wikidata (CC0). Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Artwork from TMDB and Wikimedia Commons. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.