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When the Wind Blows (1986)
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11 March 1988 (USA) moreTagline:
...It's No Fairy TalePlot:
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Chilling moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Peggy Ashcroft | ... | Hilda Bloggs (voice) |
 | John Mills | ... | Jim (voice) |
| Robin Houston | ... | Announcer (voice) |
| James Russell | ||
| David Dundas | ||
| Matt Irving |
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Factual errors: During the nuclear attack, cars can still be seen traveling on the highway. The cars would actually stall due to the electromagnetic pulse that would result from a nuclear attack. Electric and diesel trains would also stall. moreQuotes:
[dying of radiation poisoning]Hilda: Shall we... pray, dear?
Jim: Pray?
Hilda: Yes.
Jim: All right then... But... to who?
Hilda: God, of course.
Jim: Oh, oh, oh, I see... Yes, yes... Would that be the correct thing?
Hilda: It can't do any harm, dear.
Jim: Ok, um... Here it goes... Dear sir...
Hilda: No, that's wrong, dear.
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This is a film you will never forget. I watched it as a teenager expecting something soppy and sentimental (it was made by some of the same people who made the Snowman, a Christmas tale featuring the chorister Aled Jones).
John Mills is superb as the male character, his voice carries the echoes of his former glories as hero, officer type and all round good guy. With lavish casting, animation and soundtrack the plot is given a painful intensity.
Instead my family were treated to horror of the worst kind. A horror that deals with ordinary comfortable society. The two lovely elderly characters are my grandparents, my neighbours. We see them crumble and disintegrate in the nuclear aftermath. They prepare cheerfully for a nuclear war and wait helplessly in the fallout for a rescue which will never come.
Don't watch it with your parents, you will cry and be reminded about it for years afterwards.