The Day After
Year: 1983
Runtime: 127 mins
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Meyer
In the mid‑1980s America teeters on the edge of nuclear war, casting a shadow over a small Kansas town. Doctor Russell Oakes works at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg plans her wedding, and graduate student Stephen Klein studies for his thesis. When the missiles strike, the community faces the bleak reality of nuclear winter.
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