Boring. Yet I was compelled to watch... weird.
Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg
Few American movies have dealt as graphically with nuclear holocaust as The Day After, which accounted for the controversy that surrounded the telefilm at the time of its initial network broadc...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 18, 2004
Stats: 461 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (461)
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January 29, 2008
Typical 80's disaster flick about a nuclear attack in Kansas. Even though the "day before" scenes were a little slow, once the bomb hit~ I was engrossed. The movie is very dated by today's standards but it still makes me think.
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November 24, 2007
Although called the day after, the first hour dealt only with the day before, making it the same as every other catastrophe film. The effects of the actual bomb attack are absolutely fantastic but although the film is drawn out to extreme extents, you never really get the feelin...( read more)
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August 4, 2007
Shocking and depressing. Watching this makes you want to get rid of all nuclear weapons in the world. The scenes of everybody frying instantly were haunting.
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August 12, 2009
such a boring movie.The music playing throught gave me headaches.bad acting,bad hair,bad dialogue.just a very low budget film that shouldnt have been made.
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August 4, 2009
This was my first nuclear war movie I had ever seen and it was one that I saw with my beloved adoptive mother!! It might have been my first movie to watch with her.
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May 4, 2009
The day before. The day of. The Day After.
A good depiction of nuclear holocaust but lets us believe that there will be a day after the detonation, but in reality there won't be a day after.
The film starts off showing military personnel conducting operations and is a bi...( read more)
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