It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Acting
Jane Alexander's Oscar-nominated devastation — every micro-expression cuts.
Direction
Littman stays intimate, never spectacle. The horror is in the waiting.
Writing
No explosions, just people failing to comprehend the incomprehensible.
Director
Lynne Littman
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