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Miracle Mile

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Miracle Mile (1988)

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You just found out that you have 24 hours to live. What are YOU going to do?

There are 70 minutes to the end of the world. Where can you hide?

Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat quirky day together, Edwards and Winningham plan a tete-a-tete at the all-night restaurant where the girl works. While preparing to call her on a pay phone, Edwards intercepts a frantic call from a soldier stationed at a Midwestern missile silo. The message: nuclear warheads have been launched, and it's only 70 minutes to Armageddon! This unsettling news casts severe doubts over the future of Edwards' and Winningham's relationship.

Miracle Mile is a 1988 American apocalyptic thriller cult film[1] written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time. It is named after the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, where most of the action takes place.[2] The movie was well received by critics, but bombed at the box office. Despite the poor box office performance, the movie has attracted a cult following.

Roger Ebert praised the film, claiming it had a "diabolical effectiveness" and a sense of "real terror".[4] In her review for the Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote: "It seems he's (De Jarnatt) not committed to his story or his characters, but to the idea that he is saying something profound - which he isn't."[5] Stephen Holden, in The New York Times, wrote: "As Harry and Julie, Mr. Edwards and Ms. Winningham make an unusually refreshing pair."[6] In his review for the Boston Globe, Jay Carr called it: "...a messy film, but it's got energy, urgency, conviction and heat and you won't soon forget it."[7] British film and television critic Charlie Brooker, in an article for the BAFTA web site written in September 2008, awarded Miracle Mile the honor of having the "Biggest Lurch of Tone" of any film he had ever seen.[8]
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 86% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on twenty-one reviews

Release Date: May 19, 1989


Distrib: Hemdale


Boxoffice: $1,145,404 2014: $2,409,100

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