On Tubi, I watched the 1988 nuclear war movie Miracle Mile, written and directed by Steve de Jarnatt (Cherry 2000), where Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham play Harry and Julie, who meet at the La Brea Tar Pits in L.A., quickly fall in love, and when they plan to have a second date at midnight, a power outage gets in the way of his alarm clock, and while he’s out during the night leaving a phone message for her, he picks up the ringing phone to hear a desperate anonymous plea that there will be nuclear war in an hour. From there on, Harry is caught up in trying to warn people, save Julie, and get others to believe him while he himself hopes he’s not wrong about his predictions.
I had heard of this movie, but only vaguely knew what it was about, and I really liked it a lot. It’s very much of the time of being a Cold War-era nuclear holocaust movie, and it felt really tense, as everything takes place within an hour in one night, and when Harry inadvertently causes deaths, it did hit me as very dark and bleak, and the ending doesn’t give much hope either. I really liked it a lot, and the love story felt so sweet and realistic, of caring about these people who just started dating, and knowing that in real life, Edwards and Winningham would start dating during the pandemic and get married, being well into middle age by then.
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