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    Miracle Mile (1988)

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    Laid-back jazz trombonist Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) answers a random wrong number call to a phone booth outside a diner in Los Angeles in the early hours of the morning and mistakenly hears that a full-blown nuclear attack is just over an hour away.

    It’s a simple idea superbly executed; visually symbolic, somehow both romantic and terrifying and as frighteningly relevant today as it was then.

    Set in the days before mobile telephony, rolling 24-hour media and the internet became commonplace, Harry and the diner’s patrons don’t know if the threat is real.

    Deciding to take no chances and get the hell out of Dodge, the diverse protagonists are plunged into a nerve-wracking, will-they-won’t-they-make-it scenario that plays out in real-time.

    One of the film’s many plus points is that the audience is flying just as blind as the characters throughout, right up until the climax.

    Love-struck Harry is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. He becomes the viewers’ eyes and ears as he frantically and single-mindedly attempts to locate Julie (Mare Winningham), the diner waitress with whom he had fallen in love, at first sight, earlier that day.

    Will the new lovebirds be reunited and get to live a full and fruitful life together? or will the bomb drop and turn their dreams into radioactive dust?

    Miracle Mile was shot on location at night over seven weeks in the Los Angeles neighbourhood from which the film gets its title, with many of the area’s architectural landmarks prominently featured. The film was a box office failure for obvious reasons but it is exceptionally well-made and destined for cult rediscovery.

    Harry Washello
    Anthony Edwards
    Julie Peters
    Mare Winningham
    Ivan Peters
    John Agar
    Lucy Peters
    Lou Hancock
    Wilson 
    Mykelti Williamson
    Charlotta 
    Kelly Jo Minter
    Gerstead
    Kurt Fuller
    Landa
    Denise Crosby
    Fred the Cook
    Robert DoQui
    Waitress
    O-Lan Jones
    Harlan
    Claude Earl Jones
    Mike
    Alan Rosenberg
    Transvestite
    Danny De La Paz
    Drunk Man
    Earl Boen
    Stewardess
    Diane Delano
    Leslie
    Herbert Fair
    Brian Jones
    Richard Biggs

    Director
    Steve De Jarnatt

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