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American apocalypticthriller film1 written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt,2 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. The film takes place in a single day and night. The film opens with the two main characters, Harry Anthony Edwards and Julie Mare Winningham, meeting at the La Brea Tar Pits and immediately falling in love. After spending the afternoon together, they make a date to meet after her shift ends at midnight at a local coffee shop, but a power failure means Harrys alarm fails to wake him and Julie leaves for home. When Harry awakes that night he realizes whats happened and rushes to the shop, arriving at 4 AM. Harry tries to call Julie on a pay phone, but only reaches her answering machine, where he leaves an apology. When the phone rings moments later he picks it up, hearing a frantic man presumed to be in a missile silo telling his dad that nuclear war is about to break out in less than seventy minutes. When Harry finally gets a chance to talk and asks whos calling, the caller realizes he has dialed the wrong area code. Harry then hears him plead with Harry to call his father and apologize for some past wrong before he is being confronted and presumably shot. An unfamiliar voice picks up the phone and tells Harry to forget everything he heard and go back to sleep before disconnecting. Harry, confused and not entirely convinced of the reality of the information, wanders back into the diner and tells the other customers what hes heard. As the patrons scoff at his story, one of them, a mysterious businesswoman Denise Crosby named Landa, calls a number of politicians in Washington on her wireless phone and finds that they are all visiting South America at the same time. Convinced of the danger, she immediately charters several private jets out of LAX to a compound in a region in Antarctica with no rainfall. Most of the customers and staff leave with her in the owners delivery van. When the owner refuses to make any stops, Harry, unwilling to leave without Julie, arranges to meet the group at the airport and jumps from the truck. Harry is helped and hindered by various strangers, who are initially unaware of the impending apocalypse. In the process he inadvertently causes several deaths and is deeply shaken by that, yet still he goes on. When he finds Julie and later tells her, she notes that there is no confirmation of the attack. Desperate to reach the airport and not having a car, Harry finds a helicopter pilot Brian Thompson and tells him to meet them on the roof of the Mutual Benefit Life Building. Julie has also tried to find a pilot on her own, and in the moments it takes to find her, Los Angeles descends into violent chaos. There is still no confirmation any of this is real, and Harry wonders if he has sparked a massive false panic in the example of Chicken Little. However, when he uses a phone booth to contact the father of the man who called him using the number of the booth and the area code the man was trying to use he reaches a man who says his son is a soldier. Harry tries to pass on the message he was given, but the man hangs up before Harry finishes. When they reach the top of the Mutual Benefit building they find the pad empty, and the roof manned only by a yuppie Kurt Fuller taking every drug he can find. Any doubts about a false alarm are eliminated when a warhead can be seen streaking across the sky. As they fear the end, the helicopter suddenly returns with the pilot badly wounded but fulfilling his promise to come back for them. After they lift off from the roof, several warheads hit and the EMP from the detonations causes the helicopter to crash into the La Brea Tar Pits. As the helicopter sinks and the cabin fills with natural asphalt tar, Harry tries to comfort a hysterical Julie by saying someday they will be found and they will probably be put in a museum, or maybe they will take a direct hit and be turned into diamonds. Julie, accepting her fate, calms down and takes comfort in Harrys words, and the movie fades out as the tar fills the compartment. A final explosion seems to imply a direct hit has taken place. ProductioneditBefore Miracle Mile was made, its production had been legendary in Hollywood for ten years. In 1. American Film magazine as one of the ten best unmade screenplays. Steve De Jarnatt wrote it just out of the American Film Institute for Warner Brothers with the hope of directing it as well. The studio wanted to make it on a bigger scale and did not want to entrust the project with a first time director like De Jarnatt. Miracle Mile spent three years in production limbo until De Jarnatt optioned it himself, buying the script for 2. He rewrote it and the studio offered him 4. He turned them down. When he shopped it around to other studios, they balked at the mix of romance and nuclear war and the films downbeat ending. Before Anthony Edwards was cast, production nearly began with both Nicolas Cage and Kurt Russell. Of the script, Edwards said, It scared the hell out of me. Download The Legend Of The Three Trees Movie on this page. It really made me angry too. I just couldnt believe that somebody had written this. John Daly of Hemdale Films gave De Jarnatt 3. Edwards later recalled That was a script that everybody wanted to make, but they wanted him to change the ending. It was this great adventure, but they wanted it to have a happy ending. But he stuck it out, and luckily he stuck it out long enough that I was old enough to play the part. Laughs. So I got to do it, and we did it at a time when there really was no green screen for special effects. You had to shoot what was there. Its amazing how dated that film looks now, because of our ability to do things technically now. I mean, it really looks antiquated. Mare Winningham is one of the greatest actresses ever. It was eight weeks of night shooting, though, so youd be driving home from work at, like, 6 in the morning, having had a wrap beer, and then youre suddenly going, Oh my God, what do people think of somebody having a beer at 6 in the morning whenever everyone else is on their way to work Laughs. Filming locationseditThe following locations in Los Angeles were used in this film Johnies Coffee Shop La Brea Tar Pits Miracle Mile District Pan Pacific Auditorium in the Fairfax District. SoundtrackeditMiracle Mile is the twelfth soundtrack album by Tangerine Dream and their thirty seventh overall. Track listingedit1. Teetering Scales3 3. One for the Books3 0. After the Call5 1. On the Spur of the Moment3 0. All of a Dither3 2. Final Statement3 1. In Julies Eyes3 1. Running Out of Time3 3. If Its All Over4 3. People in the News5 1. Museum Walk3 1. PersonneleditReceptioneditMiracle Mile received generally positive reviews among critics. Roger Ebert praised the film, claiming it had a diabolical effectiveness and a sense of real terror. In her review for the Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote It seems hes De Jarnatt not committed to his story or his characters, but to the idea that he is saying something profound which he isnt. Stephen Holden, in The New York Times, wrote As Harry and Julie, Mr. Edwards and Ms. Winningham make an unusually refreshing pair. In his review for the Boston Globe, Jay Carr called it. British film and television critic Charlie Brooker, in an article for the BAFTA web site written in September 2. Miracle Mile the honor of having the Biggest Lurch of Tone of any film he had ever seen. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 8. NominationseditSee alsoeditReferenceseditTangerine Dream, Soundtrack to Miracle Mile review by Joe Mc. Glinchey. 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