The Day After

1983 PG-13 2h 7m

6.8 / 10 439

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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.

Director Nicholas Meyer

Writers

Edward Hume

Stars

Jason Robards JoBeth Williams Steve Guttenberg

TV Newscaster (uncredited)

Billy Beck

Dying Old Man Squatter (uncredited)

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Brian Beltran

College Student (uncredited)

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Bill Baker

College Student (uncredited)

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User Reviews 3

nutshell 3 Aug 2019

7/10

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

znapper 21 Feb 2017

8/10

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-pact and how this affect the population in and around Kansas. I think TDA really works better as a pure movie, because it is. Compared to the UK-made "Threads", which is more of a docudrama, TDA sets the scene and develop the characters. Many of t...

talisencrw 3 Jul 2016

9/10

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 films were just starting to appear on the cinephile's radar once again, after taking a breather from their 60's heyday for the sake of the glut of natural disaster films that hit theatres in the interim. This was one of the first and best, simply be...