Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
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.
- high school
- environmental protection agency
- nuclear war
- isolation
- darkness
- radiation
- chaos
- refugee
- refugee camp
- cold war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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 Hendry
- Directed
- Nicholas Meyer
- Written
- Edward Hume
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 454 ratings
- Studio
- ABC Circle Films
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