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Nov 20, 1983 · The Day After: Directed by Nicholas Meyer. With Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum. The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Nicholas Meyer
- 1983-11-20
Release. November 20, 1983. ( 1983-11-20) The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between the NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the ...
- Drama Disaster Science Fiction
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Nov 6, 2015 · The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. It was seen by more than 100 million people during its initial broadcast...
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420,120 views. 6.5K. 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...
- 127 min
- 431.7K
- Jeff Adams
Dec 4, 2023 · He supposedly got the idea for The Day After while watching The China Syndrome, the 1979 Michael Douglas movie about a near-meltdown at a nuclear reactor, which, in a harrowing example of...
- Benjamin Svetkey
Summaries. The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas. — Anthony Ventarola <theventman@aol.com> It is the mid-1980s.
Nov 21, 2023 · In 1983, ABC broadcast The Day After, a $7 million disaster film starring Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow. The film imagined a nuclear attack on the U.S. and the dystopian aftermath of a crumbling society.