The Day After

• Movie

  Type

• 1983

  Year

• 2h 7m

  Runtime

• ★ 6.9

  Rating

• TV Movie / Science Fiction / Drama

  Genre

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.

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Cast

Jason Robards

Dr. Russell Oakes

John Cullum

Jim Dahlberg

JoBeth Williams

Nurse Nancy Bauer

Steve Guttenberg

Stephen Klein

John Lithgow

Joe Huxley

Bibi Besch

Eve Dahlberg

Lori Lethin

Denise Dahlberg

Amy Madigan

Alison Ransom

William Allen Young

Airman Billy McCoy

Jeff East

Bruce Gallatin

Georgann Johnson

Helen Oakes

Lin McCarthy

Dr. Austin