
A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles.
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| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawMonograph for MIRACLE MILE now available. |
| The Moving Picture ShowJoe LeydonDeceptively simple and relentlessly gripping, it represents American independent moviemaking at its most exciting and accessible for mainstream audiences. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairDe Jarnatt does a superb job of cultivating a vibe of bleak, apocalyptic hopelessness... |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfMile still packs a wallop, especially when everything goes to hell and our lovers are forced to confront their mortality. The gorgeous, unbearable feeling of doom that De Jarnatt evokes is, well, miraculous. |
| CinapseEd TravisA master class in pacing and escalation, writer/director Steve De Jarnatt (Cherry 2000) crafts in Miracle Mile a John Hughes meets George Miller all-timer. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaIts doomsday anxiety is more powerful than blockbuster disaster movies with much bigger budgets. |
| StarburstJ.R. SouthallEdwards doesn't quite possess the gravitas necessary to authenticate the end of the world, but he holds Miracle Mile together amiably enough, such that we do actually care what happens. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanBy focusing one frantic couple's attempts to salvage their future together it channels Cold War anxieties into something beautiful. |
| User ReviewAnand KI love love love this movie!!!! The atmosphere is INSANE. And the soundtrack.....OHMYGOD!!! It's like serious and depressing, but quirky as hell. And everything just screams 80's! A true cult classic. |
| User ReviewBill WGreat little movie Showing both the good and the bad in human's.. All brought down to a very personal level... |