The Day After

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1983 PG-13 2h 7m
6.8 /10
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The Day After
The Day After
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In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

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nutshell
3 Aug 2019

James Robards is exceptional in this sad nuclear holocaust fable, made for TV but a top notch production in most all respects.

Z
21 Feb 2017

Well worth the view and it's surprisingly hard-hitting, for an American movie. TDA depict the full nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw-pac...

T
3 Jul 2016

This was solid and, considering its epoch, scary. I remember being a teen when this came up, and with U.S./Soviet relations at a nadir, nuclear war fi...

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