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The Day After is a controversial made-for-television movie about the effects that a fictional full-scale nuclear war between the United
States and the Soviet Union has on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. It was written by Edward Hume and directed by Nicholas
Meyer.
When the film was first aired, there was a great deal of stress put on educational materials to prepare audiences for the
shocking imagery and the bleak story. However, critics complained that the film was not realistic enough, because it seemed to
softpedal the true extent of the devastation of a nuclear war. An estimated 100 million people watched the movie when it first
aired on November 20, 1983.
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