The Day After

Name: The Day After
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Released: 1983
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow

1983 · 127 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 19,132 VOTES · DIR. Nicholas Meyer

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,053 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:37 General's aboard.

00:06:48 We fall in love when we fall in love.

00:11:15 Sometimes it's hard to know how to experience the Chinese landscape...

00:15:33 The real fear is: when the chips are down and the red light is blinking...."

00:18:37 No one will be at Arthur's tonight. The whole town are at the game.

00:22:39 We got up, went to the window look for the bombs.

00:28:48 l'm not sneaking. l never sneak.

00:32:18 There are even people leaving Kansas City because of the missile fields.

00:35:36 -Where is everybody? -They are watching the News.

00:38:30 You're sitting next the Whiteman Air Force Base right now.

00:44:14 Jim, can't you see all l gotta do?

00:50:58 Either way, we're gonna get hit.

00:59:56 You mean it's just going to die out there?

01:03:42 What's for?

01:08:31 l just wanted to see who was.

01:14:23 l guess that we'll get a lot of fall out from Titan missile bases...

01:17:34 What is it? Day or night?

01:22:16 l would say that we are running a serious cholera risk.

01:26:15 Please.

01:34:03 l'm going to try to put her feet here. Help me with her head.

01:38:15 Do you know what Einstein said about World War Three?

01:42:49 Are you really a doctor? You sure don't talk like one.

01:48:07 All right. l'll take some time off. See the sites.

150:02:00 a man, in here.

Cast & Characters

Jason Robards Dr. Russell Oakes JoBeth Williams Nurse Nancy Bauer Steve Guttenberg Stephen Klein John Cullum Jim Dahlberg John Lithgow Joe Huxley Bibi Besch Eve Dahlberg Lori Lethin Denise Dahlberg Amy Madigan Alison Ransom Jeff East Bruce Gallatin Georgann Johnson Helen Oakes

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,053

Dialogue density8.3 lines / min

First line00:00:37

Final line150:02:00

Production Record

DirectorNicholas Meyer

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes19,132