Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Good cast, tepid movie. . .:

The Day After is an ambitious movie that unfortunately falls short of its goals. Touting a cast of veteran character actors including Jason Robards and Steve Guttenburg, the film attempts to portray the effects of the immediate prelude to and after-effects of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The first half of the picture is taut and engrossing, showing the town of Lawrence, Kansas trying to deal with the mounting crisis as students at the University of Kansas attempt to... more info

What makes it even more scary is that it could STILL happen:

I first saw this movie a few months ago on television, and even with all the commercials, I stay tuned for all 3 hours of it. I have never been more frightened for this world in my entire life, and that is a fact. "The Day After" deals with a nuclear war, and the main characters are everyday folk, like us, in Middle America. The movie was filmed in the early 1980's, when the Cold War was at it's peak, and every film studio came out with cheap action films about post-nuclear war heros and giant radioactive... more info

Still packs a multi-megaton emotional wallop:

This made for television film first aired nearly 25 years ago while the Cold War was on - and it still packs the same sobering multi-megaton emotional wallop as it did back then. The story and scenes of human and animal tragedy and suffering will haunt for days afterwards. It's very good early 1980s period piece that fairly accurately depicts the rising Cold War tensions early in the Reagan administration.

In a reprise of the Soviet blockade of Berlin two decades earlier in 1961, the plot begins with a... more info

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