The Day After

Movie • 1983 • Drama  

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In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
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A family dog dies from starvation/radiation poisoning as the family doesn't have enough supplies to feed the dog and leaves him outside of their shelter.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is there decapitation?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there defecation?
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Abandonment
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Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
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Does a pet die?
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ladyhaymaker
Yes, the family dog is heard barking upstairs while one family is sheltering in the basement. The daughter says they forgot him and the dad says they had to leave him because of lack of food and water. Corpse shown later when someone leaves the basement.
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Does a horse die?
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xxarrio
A dead horse is shown, however it is not bloodied.
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Are there spiders?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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ladyhaymaker
Roaches. Character comments that they will be the only survivors of the nuclear winter.
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Are there snakes?
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MVOverchurch
Corpses of farm animals are seen, covered in radioactive dust.
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Does an animal die?
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AnakinApologist
Lots of farm animals from 01:22:55 through 01:24:35, but many more shown here and there throughout the rest of the film

They're obviously fake, if that helps !
Safe watching xx
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Are animals abused?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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A man mentions that there are firing squads for "looting, hijack, rape, murder" and is not believed.
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Anonymous
Several people are vaporized by nuclear bombs.
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Is there a hanging?
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Irradiated people begin going bald.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Does someone break a bone?
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ladyhaymaker
Implied, but covered with bandages.
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Anonymous
The loss of teeth is due to radiation poisoning

Close ups of people losing teeth and pulling loose teeth out.
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Anonymous
Two kids are killed during the firestorm and one is crushed during a stampede in a bomb shelter.
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Death
Does someone die?
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ladyhaymaker
Many people die.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does a parent die?
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Fear
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During a quiet dialogue scene, a wounded woman sits up suddenly and screams.
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Does someone spit?
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ladyhaymaker
This movie took place and was released nearly two decades prior and was set in Kansas, USA
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Medical
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Several people are treated for radiation sickness at a field hospital.
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Anonymous
Several people are given Acute Rafiation Sickness by fallout, which leads to cancer.
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Mental Health
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Several people are upset when they can't leave a bomb shelter.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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ladyhaymaker
After many days sheltered in place, a character has a momentary meltdown and runs outside despite understanding the danger.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Is there screaming?
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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Prejudice
Does an LGBT person die?
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Is there hate speech?
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PoeDameron
The first death we see if a brief shot of a small Black girl being trampled.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Anonymous
Implied and minor - including a scene focusing on a stolen diaphragm (played for laughs.)
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Several cars crash during the chaos preceding the nuclear attack.
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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ladyhaymaker
One character uses a shotgun to protect his home. One character is shot and killed in the lawless aftermath.
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xxarrio
The plot of the movie is mainly based around a nuclear explosion, however the bombing itself is only one scene.
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Is there blood/gore?
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