Miracle Mile

Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham

Ambitious, low-budget treatment of the day-they-dropped-the-big-one trope. AE, while well cast as an everyman, still got pretty annoying as he whined his way into control of the crisis. The prevalence of "characters" on screen took away from the stark immediacy of the situation.

Still the scenes showing the collapse of civilization were pretty convincing...I particularly liked the tar pits location...but I couldn't help think of better treatments of this same theme...Threads, The Day After, When the Wind Blows.


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