Miracle Mile (1988)

Miracle Mile according to me is one of the most underrated movies made in the 80s. Starring Anthony Edwards(Goose from Top Gun) and Mare Winningham the entire film takes place in real time in the course of one night. It starts off like any romantic movie- boy meets girl and promise to meet for date 2 which never happens as suddenly there is a threat of nuclear war and a bomb being dropped. The sense of urgency, surreal atmosphere and fantastic pacing make Miracle Mile a winner and a film that deserves to be seen more than it has. Please see it and spread the word.

This movie has is 30 years old, but it looks like it has 130. Acting is poor, direction is poorer and script is bad. It starts as a romance, goes on as a farce and ends as a tragedy. A huge tragedy. Script writers should not fool their audience. If I am watching The Day After, I am prepared to what's going on. The screenplay is clever. You feel compassion for people in their generality. You feel sorry for Humanity. In this movie you should feel sympathy for single characters who will die in a small cloud of vapor. That is not fair to me. I did not like it. My wife was right when she said that old movies are at risk, unless they are masterpieces

This resourceful film is affecting and romantic in the most literal way and manages to be so against the backdrop of a nuclear attack. Neon lit and increasingly tense, ignore the few rough edges and you will be rewarded with an absolutely unique experience, if only more genre films were as original and sincerely offbeat as this.

Enjoyed it greatly! It's a sort of period piece, with dated production sensibilities. But it has a strange twist, in that it (I guess) narrowly predates the modern o'erweening producer skittishness, and teeters, then jumps headlong, into territory that utterly trounces its genre.The story of Se Jie (Lust|Caution, by Ang Lee) is a long-game romantic theme of heavy power tragically trumping love. It'd be nice to think that "Miracle Mile" successfully compresses this theme and stuffs it through a 24-hour (izzat right?) short-game tube, producing something redemptive and remonstrative and instructive and all that. Not quite. It tries, but it's ultimately what you'd expect; a somewhat tasty, tragic sausage.But: I genuinely admire it for daring to accomplish something so against demographic convention, against fiscal wisdom, and sincerely working so hard to pull it off. I would pronounce it well worth watching, at least to witness the monumental effort expended to make its dark dream come true.