32,404 Sarah Wayne Callies, Which brings us to …. Director: Bob's Burgers (2011) - S10E01 The Ring (But Not Scary). The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, and of several family farms near nuclear missile silos.[4].

Stars: | Gross: 158 min $79.70M, PG-13 McKellar wrote the screenplay, inspired by the French film project 2000, Seen By... to depict different countries' perspectives on the imminent turn of the millennium, and opted to make the story about the end of the world.

Stars: The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Steven R. Monroe Stars: Dahlberg, upon returning from an emergency farmers' meeting, confronts a group of silent survivors squatting on his farm and attempts to persuade them to move somewhere else, only to be shot and killed mid-sentence by one of the squatters. | | [14], On its original broadcast (Sunday, November 20, 1983), John Cullum warned viewers before the film was premiered that the film contains graphic and disturbing scenes, and encouraged parents who have young children watching, to watch together and discuss the issues of nuclear warfare. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety. Ewan McGregor, In this Hunger Games spoof, Kantmiss Evershot must fight for her life in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle. Michael Bay rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com). 521,328 Director: | $75.66M, PG-13 4 orphans are on an epic adventure. The 79 Best Pandemic Movies to Binge in Quarantine, The 30 Greatest Disaster Movies of All Time, Jeffree Star’s New Boyfriend Allegedly Robbed Him and Is Ignoring His Calls, Stevie Nicks Does the Math and Wishes Harry Styles Was Older, How Emilia Clarke Kept Her Health Issues a Secret While Filming, The 50 Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now. [24], The New York Post accused Meyer of being a traitor, writing, "Why is Nicholas Meyer doing Yuri Andropov's work for him?" Action, Drama, Sci-Fi. The effects are a bit dated, but director Mark Robson put the city through such a wringer that the breadth of the destruction is breathtaking. $33.70M, PG Max Deacon, Votes: Commercials aired several months in advance, ABC distributed half a million "viewer's guides" that discussed the dangers of nuclear war and prepared the viewer for the graphic scenes of mushroom clouds and radiation burn victims. Tommy Lee Jones, It's such a disaster, this fucking night. Burt Lancaster, Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer. Roger Donaldson Rob Cohen 108 min
[32], This article is about the 1983 television film.

114 min As the city around them spins into complete mayhem, the two young lovers try to reconnect. Charlton Heston, People get angry at me when I say I think this is Kathryn Bigelow’s masterpiece, especially because this was the film that almost killed her career (before the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker resurrected it). A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America, and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment. | Ji-Won Ha, Syfy channel Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. | Gross: There were no commercial breaks after the nuclear attack. [13] In subsequent broadcasts, that voice was overdubbed by a stock actor. | "[citation needed] Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing. Several years later, these characters returned for a similarly effective sequel, called The Quake, in which our traumatized geologist now had to save his fractured family while an apocalyptic earthquake hit Oslo. | Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya. Lawrence was also agreed upon as being the "geographic center" of the United States. Our hero, the geologist who first warned of the imminent collapse, now has to save his family — including his wife and son, who are trapped underwater in a hotel. Helen Hunt,

There was slapstick, some funny lines, it was a pretty forgettable comedy, but it was worth the price of admission. Dr. Russell Oakes lives in the upper-class Brookside neighborhood with his wife and works in a hospital in downtown Kansas City. Meyer plunged into several months of nuclear research, which made him quite pessimistic about the future, to point of becoming ill each evening when he came home from work. 114 min Here, he brings together his love of the sea and his fondness for corny love stories with a great real-life tragedy, and winds up with a film for the ages.

1,026,484 | Michael Rennie, While the story provides no specifics, it strongly suggests that U.S. cities, military, and industrial bases are heavily damaged or destroyed. Don Cheadle, Votes: |


Grenier, Richard.

If you ever get a chance to catch this in 3-D, do so. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015) - S01E09 I'm Going to the Beach with Josh and His Friends! Does any reader out there remember Scary Movie?

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Meanwhile, Richard Widmark is at peak grizzled hard-ass as a general mortified at the thought of being the first American officer to lose a war to a bunch of insects. Then, ABC hired Robert Butler to direct the project. But I still find it hard not to think of these two asteroid-headed-for-the-Earth films, which opened within a few weeks of each other in 1998, as partners in crime on some level. For once, we get the sense that this director feels these issues deeply, in his own crude, bombastic way.

Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. 98 min Kristin Chenoweth! | | Stars: [3], The film postulates a fictional war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact countries that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Some of the story beats were the same – Norway ignored our hero’s warnings, again – but the devastation was even more complete. James Cameron A 2001 U.S. VHS version (Anchor Bay Entertainment, Troy, Michigan) lists a running time of 122 minutes. For several months, this group worked on drawing up storyboards and revising the script again and again; then, in early 1982, Butler was forced to leave The Day After because of other contractual commitments. Diane Lane, Votes: | Leave it to the British to make one of the more sober disaster movies of all time. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? I think I cried at least four times. When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. Well, That was the last time this premise was funny. Hollywood casting directors strolled through shopping malls in Kansas City, looking for local people to fill small and supporting roles, while the daily newspaper in Lawrence ran an advertisement calling for local residents of all ages to sign up for jobs as a large number of extras in the film and a professor of theater and film at the University of Kansas was hired to head up the local casting of the movie. | (One of the very first narrative short films was Edwin Porter’s Life of an American Fireman, from 1903.) |

(It's not a comedy, no, strangely enough, but it does have some amusing scenes and storylines in it.) Stars: Much press comment focused on the unanswered question in the film of who started the war.

But by upping the comic ante to such go-for-broke lengths, Airplane! Action, Drama, Romance.

Cardi B is a master at promotion and also had one of the best Trump has coronavirus jokes of the night. "[31], The Day After won two Emmy Awards and received 10 other Emmy nominations. Evil assassins want to kill Daniel Kublbock, the third runner up for the German Idols. Not everybody liked Paul W.S. | Gross: Will, Lisa, and two of their friends attempt to flee man-made and natural disasters and encounter Batman, Hancock, The Hulk, Indiana Jones, Hannah Montana, Michael Jackson, Beowulf, the Love Guru, Iron Man, rabid chipmunks amongst others in their seemingly vain efforts to seek help and shelter from unknown threats. T.J. Miller, Votes: Another SFX duo. [1][2][3] With a 46 rating and a 62% share of the viewing audience during its initial broadcast, it was the seventh-highest-rated non-sports show up to that time and set a record as the highest-rated television film in history—a record it still held as recently as a 2009 report.

Meyer refused to remove key scenes but reportedly some eight and a half minutes of excised footage still exist, significantly more graphic. William Atherton, 85 min

RCA videodiscs of the early 1980s were limited to 2 hours per disc, so that full screen release appears to be closest to what originally aired on ABC in the US. While most disaster movies follow a few days or hours in the lives of their characters, this devastating, fact-based account of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters from Arizona who set their own backfires to combat and contain wildfires, is an epic that encompasses several years. 9,397

What are the differences between the theatrical cut and the unrated cut. | Gross: Since commercials are not sold in these markets, Producers Sales Organization failed to gain revenue to the tune of an undisclosed sum.