Name of a movie. It starts as man answers a call from a phone booth telling him nuclear attack about to occur?

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to find out the name of a movie where at the start it's a scene outside a diner in America. A phone booth rings, and man who has just come out from the diner answers the phone. The caller is a guy who says he's from an army base telling him a nuclear attack is about to happen in the morning. He spents the rest of the night trying to convince people and get himself and girlfriend to safety. Any help would be great!!

Hmmm I'm pretty sure it wasn't "The day After". This has bugged me for ages!! I believe it was from the 80's.

I can remember the end aswell (Sorry to spoil it) The guy and his girlfriend, some how steal or hire a helicopter and as they take off the missles fly over the city. By now everyone has some how found out and the city is in chaos - they end up crash landing in the sea not far from the city.

Answer 1

...you're talking about one of my favorite contemporary sci-fi thrillers (with a unflinching foothold in science TRUTH), and one of the most underappreciated films to come out of the late '80's.

"Miracle Mile", from 1988, starred Anthony Edwards as a young jazz musician, who on a chance meeting at a museum, falls in love with a young girl (Mare Winningham), who works at a local all-night diner. Setting up a late night date with each other, the young man, as a result of a power outage, is late for that date; upon quick dispatch to the diner, he arrives too late to meet with the girl, as she finishes her shift and leaves, understandibly quite upset.

Waiting around the diner, in deciding what to do next, he picks up a random call from a nearby phone booth; the frantic voice on the other end of the line, a man at a missle silo, proclaims that "we have launched our nuclear wad, and we'd get the return package in an hour and ten".

From here, the young man desperately tries to convince everyone in the greater Los Angeles area, that nuclear armageddon is at hand....all the while, attempting a frantic search for his new-found love.....

As previously mentioned, the film was notably underappreciated, probably as a result of a lack of advertising; in fact, the original poster for the film, if i rfecall correctly, barely exhued the subject matter of the film (I, myself, originally checked out the film on a curious whim...and was most surprised), and as a result, many people passed it up.....a shame, as the film is most gripping, paranoid and absolutely enthralling!!!

MGM Home Video released the film on DVD, a few years ago.

Answer 2

I believe that is how a 1980's tv movie called "The Day After" started. It started Steve Guttenburg and Jason Robards. I may be wrong.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not "The Day After".