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Testament

Synopsis:

Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film as far removed from the fake hyperbole of action and disaster movies as the natural world is from cartoons. Set in the small California town of Hamlin, the Wetherly family and their everyday concerns open the story. The trivia that fills their secure, ordinary existence disappears when a TV show is interrupted with the announcement that nuclear bombs have exploded in the major cities on the East Coast, and then the entire scene is erased in an increasingly white, blank movie screen -- meant to show that nuclear blasts have been detonated in California as well.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Lynne Littman
  • Studio: Entertainment Events, American Playhouse, Paramount
  • Year: 1983
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: PG
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Drama
  • Filmed in: Color

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