The Day After 1983 123movies

Watch: The Day After 1983 123movies, Full Movie Online – The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 16,415
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 294 Popularity: 13.174 | TMDB

Reviews:

James Robards is exceptional in this sad nuclear holocaust fable, made for TV but a top notch production in most all respects.

Well worth the view and it’s surprisingly hard-hitting, for an American movie.

TDA depict the full nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw-pact and how this affect the population in and around Kansas.

I think TDA really works better as a pure movie, because it is. Compared to the UK-made “Threads”, which is more of a docudrama, TDA sets the scene and develop the characters.

Many of the characters also survive the initial attack and we follow them 2-4 weeks after the initial attack.

Even though TDA was both politically incorrect at the time and is also pretty bleak and scary, it does fall into the trap of being more of a movie than a film meant to shock and present facts.

Some of the cheesy dialogue and characters also feels a little ‘meh’ (love stories, family-drama etc). Threads also has some of that, but avoid the most cheesy moments, because it’s more ‘real’ than ‘played out by actors’.

Anyway, TDA works well, it will keep you seated and you will indeed feel moved by the buildup and attack-scene, as well as the aftermath.

Acting is for the most part very good and the film flows nicely trough the story.

The thing I don’t like too much with TDA, is that it does pull it’s punches concerning the consequences of such a nuclear exchange and it does leave the viewer with a slightly positive outlook, that things will improve in time and that mankind will prevail.

Dr. Oakes, one of the main-characters in the film is probably the voice of the most realistic views on what is to come, but his views aren’t lifted up as being the view of the movie itself.

Still a highly recommended film, it does cover a subject only covered properly by this and the UK made ‘Threads’.

A very controversial, but excellent film
This film originally aired as a TV movie back in 1983 in the United States. It depicts the effects of nuclear war on the citizens of the Kansas City area. In the film, during the actual attacks, a lot of raw footage of nuclear blasts and explosions is used, but no computer enhanced special effects were needed in this film to get the point across. The point, being of course, that nuclear war is horrible. The movie was aired to show leaders of nations in the world what would happen if nuclear war was ever waged. When this film was first aired, Cold War tensions were high and the fear of nuclear war was very imminent. Though the events in the film are very powerful, a disclaimer at the end of the movie even tells the viewers that the events depicted in the film are far less worse then what would actually take place in a real nuclear war.

I feel that the plot was created well. The film shows what happens before the attacks, the actual attacks and then what happens after the attacks. The attacks were not shown too soon after the movie began but well into the movie and built up enough to show a lot of drama. The acting is very good, in my opinion. The late Jason Robards plays the lead role and a few other familiar faces take part as well (Steve Guttenburg, John Lithgow). The writing is fair, but not bad for a made-for-TV movie.

Overall, the movie is very excellent and places itself very positively in my book. It was a very controversial film for its time and it did scare the hell out of many people (truthfully, it did shake me up a little the first time I saw it). It’s really not for the kids, even though it was a TV movie, because the scenes of the nuclear blasts and radiation sickness aren’t very light.

The Impossible Day
Before it was broadcast by ITV in Britain. The Day After made headline news for its record breaking viewing audiences in America.

Jason Robards was the main star who plays a Doctor caught up in a Kansas city community after a nuclear attack.

We are introduced to a myriad of characters before the attack, the nuclear bombs going off and then the aftermath. The fabric of society starts to fall apart and people are affected by radiation sickness.

The opening is very much a soap opera melodrama and rather slow to get going. The special effects of the nuclear explosions look rather cheesy.

There is nothing cheesy about the aftermath. It is grim and dark.

I remembered being disturbed when watching it, especially to see the characters poisoned by radiation.

After the movie was broadcast, the BBC announced that they were going to show their own version called Threads in 1984. It was no contest, Threads was bleak as nuclear black rain.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 7 min (127 min), 2 hr (120 min) (TV) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-PG
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi
Director Nicholas Meyer
Writer Edward Hume
Actors Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 6 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1, 4:3 (director’s cut)
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,471 m (Sweden), 3,475 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm