There's a nuclear explosion and radiation is everywhere, and then the family we're spending time with slowly dies off. Ok. But... what's the takeaway? We don't really know the family well enough or spend enough time with them for the film to work as a solid character study, and there's a journalling convention that the main character takes up early in the film that totally disappears by the end when it could really have helped us identify with her. Instead, everything in it just sort of happens in a kind of daze. Oh well.
Kevin Costner and Rebecca De Mornay have small parts as a married couple with a young child. It was cool to see them. And this movie was also filmed in Sierra Madre, very close to where I grew up and where my parents still attend church.
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