Testament

Testament

1983 · 90 min · EN · PG · 6.4 (111 votes)
Dir. Lynne Littman · Starring Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas, Philip Anglim · Music James Horner

Imagine a day like any other. The children are fighting, the refrigerator is humming. Highways are jammed, playgrounds are filled. Everything is perfectly normal... For the very last time.

DramaScience Fiction

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

VIBE

A quiet, devastating look at ordinary people facing the unimaginable. It feels like a slow descent into a chilling, nuclear-scarred reality, focusing on the quiet strength and profound sorrow of a family's struggle to endure.

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