Le Jour d'après

Titre original : The Day After

Téléfilm
1983
12
2h 7min

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7,0/10

19 k

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POPULARITÉ

1 663

676

Disaster Tragedy Drama Sci-Fi

Si ce jour venait, ce serait la fin de chaque journée! Les effets d'un holocauste nucléaire dévastateur sur les habitants des petites villes de l'est du Kansas. Voici ce qu'aurait été la tro... Tout lireSi ce jour venait, ce serait la fin de chaque journée! Les effets d'un holocauste nucléaire dévastateur sur les habitants des petites villes de l'est du Kansas. Voici ce qu'aurait été la troisième guerre nucléaire!Si ce jour venait, ce serait la fin de chaque journée! Les effets d'un holocauste nucléaire dévastateur sur les habitants des petites villes de l'est du Kansas. Voici ce qu'aurait été la troisième guerre nucléaire!

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NOTE IMDb

7,0/10

19 k

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

1 663

676

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Récompensé par 2 Primetime Emmys
- 6 victoires et 11 nominations au total

Anecdotes
The program originally aired on November 20, 1983. It remains the most-watched TV movie in U.S. history. Estimates put the viewership at over 100 million Americans, with a Nielsen share of 62 percent.

Gaffes
When Dr. Austin (Lin McCarthy) is explaining the effects of the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the nuclear blast, he says. "It's all theoretical. It's never happened before." In actuality, the United States detonated a 3.8 megaton warhead at an altitude of 50 miles, 1 August 1958, in the Operation Hardtack Teak shot nuclear test. This event caused unexpected communications disruption and damage to electrical equipment in an area that ranged between Hawaii and New Zealand. It was the first observation of the EMP effect.

Citations
Joe Huxley: You know what Einstein said about World War III? He said he didn't know how they were gonna fight World War III, but he knew how they would fight World War IV: With sticks and stones.

Crédits fous
[After movie has ended, before end credits.] The catastrophic events you have just witnessed are, in all likelihood, less severe than the destruction that would actually occur in the event of a full nuclear strike against the United States. It is hoped that the images of this film will inspire the nations of this earth, their peoples, and leaders to find the means to avert that fateful day.

Versions alternatives
The rare laserdisc version (released by Image Entertainment in 1995) is advertised as being a director's cut. This version runs 127mins, is widescreen in its proper ratio of 1:75:1 and has a commentary track by director Nicholas Meyer. At the time of this release full versions of the film were not readily available. So it stands to chance this director's cut is actually the same as the current mgm dvd (US region 1) as far as content and running time goes, with the exception of the widescreen format and commentary track which so far has only be found on this laserdisc.

Connexions
Edited from Un tueur dans la foule (1976)

Bandes originales
Music from 'The River'
by Virgil Thomson
Arranged by David Raksin (uncredited)

Avis des utilisateurs217

Commentaire à la une

8/10

Appropriately Bleak

I, like many of my age, saw this when it originally aired as a class assignment. It had a great impact on me, as the cold war was still going strong and the threat of a nuclear war was something that people still thought about. The movie may not be the greatest ever made, but the acting is more than adequate, especially from Jason Robards, and the script was far better than any other movies made for television at that time. I recommend it to anyone, even those with a low tolerance for grossness (radiation sickness is shown in progressive stages, and it is not pretty). It's dark, depressing, and if you get into it you will definitely need to follow it up with a musical or cartoons just to lift your spirits again. Still, the subject matter is not something that can be portrayed positively even at a tv-movie level of realism.