The Day After

“They told us it would be impossible to make this movie. They told us it would be impossible for you to watch it. We hope nothing is impossible.”

In the early 1980s, Lawrence, Kansas, goes about its business while tension over Germany builds on the news. Dr. Russell Oakes (Jason Robards) keeps his rounds at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her wedding, and Stephen Klein (Steve Guttenberg) studies for his graduate degree. Nicholas Meyer holds the camera on the wheat fields near the missile silos, where the farmland sits quiet under a wide Kansas sky.