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7.6/10 • 339

1984-09-231h 57m

WarDramaScience Fiction

The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war.

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Directors
Mick Jackson
Writters
Barry Hines
Editors
Barry Hines, Donna Bickerstaff

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  1. Karen Meagher

    Karen Meagher

    Ruth Beckett

  2. Reece Dinsdale

    Reece Dinsdale

    Jimmy Kemp

  3. David Brierly

    David Brierly

    Mr. Kemp

  4. Rita May

    Rita May

    Mrs. Kemp

  5. Nicholas Lane

    Nicholas Lane

    Michael Kemp

  6. Jane Hazlegrove

    Jane Hazlegrove

    Alison Kemp

  7. Henry Moxon

    Henry Moxon

    Mr Beckett

  8. June Broughton

    June Broughton

    Mrs Beckett

  9. Sylvia Stoker

    Sylvia Stoker

    Granny Beckett

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znapper

Feb 20, 2017

10/10

This film was, for many, a turning-point regarding nuclear weapons, the cold war and nuclear-politics. Set in a 1984 UK industrial-suburbia, as the cold war gets hot, we follow regular people in their daily lives and how they prepare for the coming apocalypse. Barry Hines and Mick Jackson explains and shows us how the world is interconnected and woven together, each strand in this web is dependent on the others and when the threads start to break, the webbing that hold society together, unravel and we are quickly left with hardship and irreparable loss. There is no help from the outside, as most places are left in the same sorry state. With the lingering pollution from the war, there is only one way human kind can go from there. This film has no high-notes and there are no cheesy Hollywood-lines to comfort you during the viewing, just cold-hard facts and statistic. When the inevitable starts, we follow Ruth in particular, the main character, on her journey, 13 years into the future. We see how she tries to cope, as the remnants of the industrial world and human kind slowly crumble and whither around her. The film use simple effects and has a natural gritty style. This prevents the film from looking too dated. In addition, most of the film work with limited sets and scenes, so the time-period it is shot in, is somewhat removed from the story and experience. The acting is real and very good, they are real people, playing real people, 'no time for plastic Hollywood-figures here'. What we are left with, is most likely one of the bleakest, grimmest and most depressing film, that everyone needs to see at least once. It will remain a testament to the cold war, but as long as there are nuclear weapons, it will continue to be an ever-relevant warning. It will stick with you indefinitely.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$420,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
great britainnorthern englanddespairyorkshirenuclear holocaustdisasternuclear falloutradiation sicknessaggressivegrimnuclear wintersheffield, englandsocietal collapsesinister