Testament / Paramount Pictures presents an Entertainment Events production in association with American Playhouse ; a Lynne Littman film ; screenplay by John Sacret Young ; produced by Jonathan Bernstein & Lynne Littman ; directed by Lynne Littman.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 01739B | Paramount PicturesPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, 2004.Description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0792197445
- 9780792197447
- Director of photography, Steven Poster ; editor, Suzanne Pettit ; music, James Horner.
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA TESTAMEN | Available | 33111009952876 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film as far removed from the fake hyperbole of action and disaster movies as the natural world is from cartoons. Set in the small California town of Hamlin, the Wetherly family and their everyday concerns open the story. The trivia that fills their secure, ordinary existence disappears when a TV show is interrupted with the announcement that nuclear bombs have exploded in the major cities on the East Coast, and then the entire scene is erased in an increasingly white, blank movie screen -- meant to show that nuclear blasts have been detonated in California as well. Over 1000 people die in the first month from radiation sickness, but the mother in the Wetherly family (Jane Alexander) displays great inner strength as she cares for orphaned children the family has taken under its wing and goes on sustaining those that remain in her own family. At one point, she quietly conveys to her daughter the happiness of intimacy between two adults, knowing her daughter will not live to experience adult love. As these individuals and the children cope with day-to-day existence, there is never any intrusion of overt horrors, the focus remains on the individuals and the way in which they adjust to the inevitable. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Based on the story, The last testament, by Carol Amen.
Director of photography, Steven Poster ; editor, Suzanne Pettit ; music, James Horner.
Jane Alexander, William Devane, Ross Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas, Philip Anglim, Kevin Costner.
A nuclear strike has occurred. No one knows who made it or why, but the unthinkable has happened, and nothing can ever be the same. Carol must hold her family together and watch helplessly as her loved ones become victims of the deadly invisible radiation.
DVD.
English subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.