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VHS : Miracle MileBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of VHS and Miracle Mile. starring: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson directed by: Steve De Jarnatt  Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0026359032233 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Release Date: March 28, 1995 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1989 Sales Rank: 34344 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: What do you do when you're given the deadline for the end of the world? Steve De Jarnatt's insidiously clever and utterly gripping nuclear thriller begins as a romantic lark--amiable swing trombonist Anthony Edwards meets girl of his dreams Mare Winningham--and turns into a nightmarish vision of society out of control. It all turns on the chance pick-up of a ringing pay phone at 4 a.m. and a panicked voice breathlessly warning Edwards that World War III has been launched. Genuine wake-up call or elaborate prank? De Jarnatt plays his hand close to the chest, which only increases the unnerving tension as word spreads like a contagion. Future E.R. star Edwards is perfectly cast as the everyman driven to reckless desperation and director De Jarnatt creates wonders on a small budget. His vision of L.A.'s Miracle Mile gripped in the blind panic of a careening traffic jam is both believable and chilling. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Works on many levels - topnotch and overlooked!This underrated 'thriller' also works as a black comedy that's easily read as an outpicturing of a young man's sexual hysteria that mushrooms (ha-ha) when he meets the girl of his dreams at the LaBrea Tar Pits in La-La-Land. It's also a chilling pic of cause-and-effect in sort of a "Don't Look Now"ish vein, but more pop and fast-paced. The production design pits red against green-blues, and it's a love poem to an evocative sector of L.A. that's most appealing at night when everyone is home or in ... Read More Rating:  - To fall in love the day before the earth's going to endHarry (Anthony Edwards) took 30 years to find the right girl, Julie (Mare Winningham) and in an hour he may well lose her and the world as well. Harry meets Julie at a museum where a class full of kids are looking at dinosaurs. It's love at first sight, but Harry thinks he'll never see her again until Julie appears looking over the rim of the La Brea tarpits with him. They're scheduled to go out on a date, but a freak accident keeps Harry sleeping. He awakens at 4:00 ... Read More Rating: - 3 stars out of 4The Bottom Line: Though the film is marred by the fact that the two leads (especially Mare Winningham) are not interesting or attractive enough for us to care about them, Miracle Mile manages to present several indelible images along with a sublime sense of looming doom; dated, but well worth watching. Rating: - "On our 3rd date, Harry, I'm gonna screw your eyes blue."MIRACLE MILE is above all a love story; boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boys runs frantically around L.A. trying to get heavily sedated girl on an airplane bound for the antarctic. But perhaps I should start at the beginning as Harry Washello does when he tells his story of how he came to meet his perfect girl after 30 lonely years on planet earth, and I'm not kidding--he really goes back to the beginning. To the very dawn of creation in fact, 15 billion years ago when a tremendous burst of pure energy ... Read More Rating: - What an ending!I first saw Miracle Mile back when it first appeared on VHS. I remember that the theatrical preview for it revealed very little of what the film was actually about. At least I think I remember it that way. Anyway, as I watched the film, and its plot became clear, I prepared myself for a bummer ending. How delighted I was when the end came! It was nice to see that writer/director Steve De Jarnett had the backbone to end it the way he did. And now, something like twenty years later, the ending is still ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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