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6.8In 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.
Cast
- Jason Robards as Dr. Russell Oakes
- JoBeth Williams as Nurse Nancy Bauer
- Steve Guttenberg as Stephen Klein
- John Cullum as Jim Dahlberg
- John Lithgow as Joe Huxley
- Bibi Besch as Eve Dahlberg
Themes
- high school
- environmental protection agency
- nuclear war
- isolation
- darkness
- radiation
- chaos
- refugee
- refugee camp
- cold war
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Key facts
- Genre
- Drama, Disaster, Science fiction
- Written by
- Edward Hume
- Directed by
- Nicholas Meyer
- Starring
- Jason Robards , JoBeth Williams , Steve Guttenberg , John Cullum , John Lithgow , Amy Madigan
- Theme music composer
- David Raksin , Virgil Thomson (Theme for "The River")
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Producer
- Robert Papazian
- Cinematography
- Gayne Rescher
- Editors
- William Paul Dornisch, Robert Florio
- Running time
- 126 minutes
- Production company
- ABC Circle Films
- Network
- ABC
- Release
- November 20, 1983 ( 1983-11-20 )
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Day After is a 1983 American television film directed by Nicholas Meyer. The war film postulates a fictional conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and several family farms near American missile silos. The cast includes JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, Jason Robards, and John Lithgow. The film was written by Edward Hume and produced by Robert Papazian, with clips from the 1979 Air Force documentary First Strike used.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Day After” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.