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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2599491" data-attributes="member: 14159">I think he got The Day After (1984) confused with Testament (1983), a similar &quot;small town in the aftermath of nuclear war&quot; movie, that could be loosely described as he described it.Testament was a lot like what he described, just average small-town folks sitting at home when the Emergency Broadcast System comes on and says a nuclear war is underway.&nbsp; Things slowly go from bad to worse as supply lines are cut, people wander away to find their fate elsewhere and people starve from lack of food or die of radiation poisoning.&nbsp; The young teenage female lead wants to lose her virginity, but there are no non-related male survivors in the area by this late in the movie, and in the end the entire family climbs into their car in the garage and commits suicide by running the engine in the car together.&nbsp; Rather grim movie, and a really strange thing for a High School English teacher to a group of Sophomores for no apparent reason (mine did, just stopped class for two days to show us this movie, not apparently tied to any other lessons, I don't remember too much just the Emergency Broadcast System scene, the uncertainty about whatever happened to their father because he was out-of-town when the war broke out, the daughter lamenting to her mother she would die a virgin, and the entire family committing suicide in the end to escape the hardships of the postnuclear world).Probably a grimly accurate depiction of life after a nuclear war, for people who weren't in the direct blast areas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2599491, member: 14159"] I think he got The Day After (1984) confused with Testament (1983), a similar "small town in the aftermath of nuclear war" movie, that could be loosely described as he described it. Testament was a lot like what he described, just average small-town folks sitting at home when the Emergency Broadcast System comes on and says a nuclear war is underway. Things slowly go from bad to worse as supply lines are cut, people wander away to find their fate elsewhere and people starve from lack of food or die of radiation poisoning. The young teenage female lead wants to lose her virginity, but there are no non-related male survivors in the area by this late in the movie, and in the end the entire family climbs into their car in the garage and commits suicide by running the engine in the car together. Rather grim movie, and a really strange thing for a High School English teacher to a group of Sophomores for no apparent reason (mine did, just stopped class for two days to show us this movie, not apparently tied to any other lessons, I don't remember too much just the Emergency Broadcast System scene, the uncertainty about whatever happened to their father because he was out-of-town when the war broke out, the daughter lamenting to her mother she would die a virgin, and the entire family committing suicide in the end to escape the hardships of the postnuclear world). Probably a grimly accurate depiction of life after a nuclear war, for people who weren't in the direct blast areas. [/QUOTE]

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