IMDb RATING
7.0/10
6.2K
YOUR RATING
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
6.2K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Stars
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total
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William G. Schilling
- Pharmacistas Pharmacist
- (as William Schilling)
- Director
- Writers
- Carol Amen(based on the story "The Last Testament" by)
- John Sacret Young(screenplay)
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off. —Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
- Taglines
- It happened in an instant. The televisions went blank, the radios - silent. The cities were gone, the future abandoned. And the only thing they have left to hold onto, is the people they love.
- Genres
- Certificate
- PG
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was originally shot as a made-for-TV movie. Paramount executives were so impressed with it that they released it in theaters as a feature. The cast sued the producers for higher pay, claiming they were paid television salaries and not feature film salaries. The case was settled out of court.
- Quotes
Mary Liz Wetherly: [Remember] the morning I walked in on you and Dad?
Carol Wetherly: Yes.
Mary Liz Wetherly: What's it like?
Carol Wetherly: What's what like?
Mary Liz Wetherly: Making love. Don't play mother with me.
Carol Wetherly: That's what I am.
- SoundtracksAll My Loving
(1963)
By John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Produced by Andrew Dorfman
Performed by Mitch Weissman
Courtesy of Mac Len Music
Top review
A movie that will change the way you think about drama.
You cry at the end of these kinds of movies. I did. You think about the future, and how it will affect you. Jane Alexander rushes around, not letting her youngest son be put into the ground without his toy. You see him wrapped in his favorite bed sheets. Cars are on the sheets. You can't help but cry. TESTAMENT carries the ability to wonder into your thoughts, your emotions, and it tells you, it shows you, what life is like, what the term, "Drama" means. When I turned off the T.V. after the movie was done, I couldn't help but look straight at the black screen and say, "I'm never watching this movie again". It affected me so much, that I never watched another movie for days. I got up stared outside the window, looking at the snow, with my head against the window, breathing. To this day, I dream of what might happen to us, if TESTTAMENT fulfills it's meaning. I never saw the movie again since that one Sunday morning, nor I ever will again.
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Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,044,892
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $317,996
- Nov 6, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $2,044,892
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