Monday, May 12, 2008

The Greatest TV Movies THE DAY AFTER


TV movies. 9 out of 10 of them are bad. There not worth watching. However ever once in a while there is gem. In 1983 ABC broadcast a thought provoking TV movie called "The Day After". The story is what happens after the war.


Against the real-life backdrop of the U.S. deployment of WMDs in Europe during the escalating Cold War, this "dramatically involving [and] agonizingly graphic film" (The Hollywood Reporter) about nuclear holocaust detonated a direct hit into the heartland of America.Starring Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steven Guttenberg, John Cullum and John Lithgow, this "controversial, potent drama" (Leonard Maltin) remains "one of the most talked-about programs in history"(Newsweek)! When Cold War tensions reach the ultimate boiling point, the inhabitants of a small town in Kansas learnalong with the rest of America that they have fewer than 30 minutes before 300 Soviet warheads begin to appear overhead! Can anyone survive this ultimate nightmare...or the nuclear winter that is sure to follow?



Even today the movie is one everybody should see. It makes you think.

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