The Day After
They told us it would be impossible to make this movie. They told us it would be impossible for you to watch it. We hope nothing is impossible.
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.
- 6.8
- 1983
- Released
- 2h 7m
Jason Robards
Dr. Russell Oakes
JoBeth Williams
Nurse Nancy Bauer
Steve Guttenberg
Stephen Klein
John Cullum
Jim Dahlberg
John Lithgow
Joe Huxley
Bibi Besch
Eve Dahlberg
Lori Lethin
Denise Dahlberg
Amy Madigan
Alison Ransom
Jeff East
Bruce Gallatin
Georgann Johnson
Helen Oakes
William Allen Young
Airman Billy McCoy
Calvin Jung
Dr. Sam Hachya
Lin McCarthy
Dr. Austin
Dennis Lipscomb
Reverend Walker
Clayton Day
Dennis HendryDoug Scott
Danny DahlbergEllen Anthony
Joleen DahlbergKyle Aletter
Marilyn OakesAlston Ahern
CynthiaWilliam Allyn
ProfessorAntonie Becker
Ellen Hendry
Pamela Brown
NurseJonathan Estrin
Julian French
Stephen Furst
Aldo
Arliss Howard
Tom CooperRosanna Huffman
Dr. WallenbergBob Meister
Cody
George Petrie
Dr. LandowskaGlenn Robards
Barber #2
Tom Spratley
Barber #1Stan Wilson
Vinnie ConradArthur Ashe
TV Newscaster (uncredited)
Billy Beck
Dying Old Man Squatter (uncredited)Bill Baker
College Student (uncredited)
Released
en
- #high school
- #environmental protection agency
- #nuclear war
- #isolation
- #darkness
- #radiation
- #chaos
- #refugee
- #refugee camp
- #cold war
- #insanity
- #post-apocalyptic future
- #nuclear radiation
- #delirium
- #hysteria
- #kansas, usa
- #lawlessness
- #end of the world
- #nuclear explosion
- #nuclear holocaust
- #disaster
- #apocalypse
- #armageddon
- #anarchy
- #nuclear
- #nuclear threat
- #nuclear fallout
- #mushroom cloud
- #disfigurement
- #radiation sickness
- #catastrophe
- #revolver
- #nightmare becomes reality
- #world war iii
- #epa
- #mass destruction
- #emp
- #mass grave
- #mass killing
- #destroyed city
- #nuclear winter
- #psychotronic film
- #ensemble cast
- #college campus
- #danger
- #pandemonium
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Reviews
James Robards is exceptional in this sad nuclear holocaust fable, made for TV but a top notch production in most all respects.
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
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