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''Miracle Mile'' is a 1988 drama written and directed by Steve de Jarnatt. Harry (Anthony Edwards) makes a date with Julie (Mare Winningham), but his alarm clock fails to ring and he oversleeps. Instead, Harry receives an anonymous phone call, and the panicked caller tells him that nuclear strikes have been ordered, and all-out nuclear war will begin within the hour.
The call turns out to be a wrong number, the caller plays it off as a joke, and Harry is left wondering whether the news is legitimate. The remainder of the film is spent more or less in [[Real Time]] as Harry looks for Julie, tries to confirm the news, and wonders what to do next.
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* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 1; if the voice on the phone is telling the truth, much of the United States and Soviet Union are dead.
* [[Cold War]]: Possibly giving way to [[World War III]].
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* [[Hope Spot]]: The helicopter to safety.
* [[Unreliable Expositor]]: The anonymous caller.
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* [[You Are Worth Hell]]: At the end of the film, {{spoiler|as Harry and Julie sink into the tar pits amid a nuclear holocaust he might have escaped if he hadn't gone back to save her, she suggests that maybe they'll be metamorphosized (sic) into diamonds by the heat and pressure. "Diamonds...You and me, Harry." To which he responds (the last line of the film), "You and me. Diamonds."}}
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