To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the movie's release, Liberty Hall is showing The Day After next week.


Click the image to see the IMDB article.
Even though they're asses and won't allow their image to display.




It is the mid-1980s. An aggressive Soviet leadership orders troops marched to the border of West Berlin, and then decides to invade West Germany with multiple armored tank & troop divisions. In Lawrence, Kansas - on the border with Missouri - a family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, and Dr. Oakes (Jason Robards) is keeping busy in his role as chief of surgery in the small University Hospital at Lawrence. These people go on with their daily lives but are drawn closer to the possibility of a nuclear war, as the Russians use a nuclear ballistic missile against a West German city, and then attack a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. The Americans strike back by hitting a Soviet ship, and then the Russians hit NATO regional headquarters with a nuclear warhead!

...and then things get worse.

Thursday, November 20, at 7:00pm. Be there or miss Lawrence getting nuked!

Best,
Chris

From: [identity profile] radcliffe.livejournal.com


Ooh wow. When the movie was filmed I auditioned for it! There is a little girl with braces in it, that was almost me! I am not sure I would be up for seeing it again, it really disturbed me when I was little!

From: [identity profile] arian1.livejournal.com


You could point at the screen and say "That was almost me!" :D

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


Oh, that would have been so fun!

Disturbed me a lot, too, so I've never seen it in its entirety. So I plan to watch it this time!

From: [identity profile] rougewench.livejournal.com


I'm one of the extras in the Allen Field House scene (and in the field you see over Jason Robard's shoulder when he looks out a hospital window)...along with the 999 other people who were there.

It disturbed the hell out of me and I was in it.

Interestingly, the farmhouse used belonged to the aunt of a good friend of mine. Their payment was few thousand dollars and a complete interior renovation and field cleaning, once it was all over.


D.

From: [identity profile] gmskarka.livejournal.com


[livejournal.com profile] seymoure is in it, with a brief speaking role. He's in a grocery store with a transistor radio pressed to his ear, and tells one of the main characters about the US strike on the Soviet ship.

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


! That would have been fun, except I bet it was extra-disturbing for the little kids involved.

From: [identity profile] gryphonrose.livejournal.com


Heh, I lived in Hash way back when as an undergrad. They showed The Day After on the last night of Freshman Orientation. I still remember watching it.

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


I wonder what message they were trying to send with that....

From: [identity profile] ericreynolds.livejournal.com


My brother was going to KU at the time and I went over and watched with him and his roommates. Somehow seeing familiar places get nuked made it more real. Saw it again a couple of years ago on cable. But to see it on a big screen would be cool.

From: [identity profile] steve98052.livejournal.com


That was a pretty disturbing movie, particularly since I lived in Lincoln at the time, not that far away. But the similar movie Threads was a better, scarier movie, in spite of the cheap-ass BBC budget.

From: [identity profile] jensixstones.livejournal.com


My look-alike is in that movie. Blue shirt, glasses, shoulder-length curly brown hair--she looks just like I did in 1983.

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


Just a look-alike? Is she you but you don't want to admit it?

From: [identity profile] the-themiscyran.livejournal.com


When I moved to NYC, this film was the first reference to Kansas that was made to me when a guy I was interviewing with found out where I was from - oddly, he had seen it while on a business trip in the Ukraine.

I wasn't in it. My family was on vacation when they were filming, but pretty much all of my friends were. I remember most of them being more excited about getting covered in fake radiation burns than being disturbed by the actual film.

From: [identity profile] sf-reader.livejournal.com


Having never seen it, I would consider comging over for the showing. But I didn't see anything about it on the Liberty Hall website.

From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com


It's under "Coming Soon":

The Day After
A graphic, disturbing film about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas
SPECIAL SCREENING-THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20!!-7:00 PM
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