This is not a great movie by any conventional standard, but I enjoy it nonetheless. It's really little more than a glorified Twilight Zone episode, but it's just filled with so much 80's goodness.
Here's the basic concept.
A man (Anthony Edwards... yes, the guy from ER) and a woman (Mare Winningham...yes, the girl from St. Elmo's Fire) meet at the La Brea Tarpits and promptly fall in love. But, here's the clincher... he arranges a date for that evening, but is late. He ends up at a diner and, by pure dumb luck, is standing next to a ringing payphone. Yes, they still had payphones in the 80's. Anyway, it's a wrong number and the guy on the other end of the line was actually trying to frantically call a family member to warn them that the missiles are in the air and there's only 70 minutes before L.A. is a nuclear firestorm.
Wow, didn't see that coming. Anyway, the rest of the movie is a combination of After Hours and The Day After. It has a beautifully downbeat/romantic ending. Oh, and the soundtrack is by the wonderfully prolific 80's Tangerine Dream.
Here's the first 7 minutes of the movie...
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