'Television Event': Film Review | DOC NYC 2020
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hollywoodreporter.com"TV movie" and "nuclear annihilation" aren't readily linked concepts, and they certainly weren't back in the movie-of-the-week heyday of 1983, when ABC took a gamble on the decidedly downbeat The Day After.
The Kansas-set drama, an unflinching depiction of the aftermath of an atomic conflagration, aired Nov. 20 of that year, after months of promotion and controversy, not to mention last-minute warnings from the American Psychiatric Association.
It was a disaster pic distinguished by its aim to discomfort rather than entertain, and its broadcast debut was viewed by an estimated 100 million Americans.
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