Threads (1984) (TV) | Threads Directed by Mick Jackson | Nuclear holocaust TV film, fought in.... Yes IRAN!
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Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / War (more)
Plot Outline: A dramatization of the probable consequences of a full
scale nuclear war on a English community. (more)
User Comments: Shocking yet extremely realistic nuclear-war
telemovie... (more)
User Rating: ********__ 7.8/10 (837 votes) Vote Here
Cast overview, first billed only:
Karen Meagher .... Ruth Beckett
Reece Dinsdale .... Jimmy Kemp
David Brierly .... Mr. Kemp
Rita May .... Mrs. Kemp
Nicholas Lane .... Michael Kemp
Jane Hazlegrove .... Alison Kemp
Henry Moxon .... Mr. Beckett
June Broughton .... Mrs. Beckett
Sylvia Stoker .... Granny Beckett
Harry Beety .... Clive Sutton
Ruth Holden .... Marjorie Sutton
Ashley Barker .... Bob
Michael O'Hagan .... Chief Supt. Hirst
Phil Rose .... Medical Officer
Steve Halliwell .... Information Officer
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Runtime: Brazil:110 min
Country: UK / Australia / USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: UK:15
Trivia: While shooting the movie, the BBC got in trouble with local
police when they detonated a large smoke bomb in order to simulate a
nuclear explosion. Members of the public, who were not aware that a
movie was being shot, panicked and thought that a real explosion had
occurred. (more)
Goofs:Continuity: Just after the policeman delivers the secret letter
to Clive Sutton, he calls his secretary and starts to read off the
names of the people he wants to see in his office. The piece of paper
in the close-ups is different from the one we see in the long shot.
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Quotes: Public Information Film Announcer: If you leave your home, your
local authority may take it over for homeless families. And, if you
move, the authorities in the new place will not help you with food,
accomodation or other essentials. You are better off in your own home.
Stay there. (more)
Awards: 4 wins & 3 nominations (more)
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Shocking yet extremely realistic nuclear-war telemovie..., 23 June 2001
10/10
Author: Aussie Stud from Providence, Rhode Island
As with most other reviewers who saw this movie, I too have had
shocking images burned into my brain that I will never forget.
I first saw this when I was in 8th grade. Our teacher showed us the
first half but then she went on sick leave and for some reason, we
never got to see the rest of the film. Most of the other students
didn't really care, but for years I've always wondered how the movie
turned out.
Well I recently rented this after I saw it at video store I just signed
up at and all I can say is, "Oh my God." Although captivating, this
movie is shockingly and frightfully sickening in the most humane way
possible. It focuses on the threat of a nuclear war that is imposed on
the residents of an industrial town in Britain, "Sheffield". The
nuclear war will affect all of Britain and penultimately, the rest of
the world, but we focus on several different characters and families
that reside in Sheffield.
We spend the first half of the movie focusing on people in every day
life situations which lead into reports of a nuclear war scare and
finally, widespread panic in society that results after it becomes
apparent that a nuclear war WILL most likely occur.
The halfway point of the movie is the nuclear explosion itself. We see
buildings explode, bodies incinerate and perhaps the end of the world
as we may all know it.
The second half of the movie focuses on the aftermath of the nuclear
devastation and the collapse of a working society. I can't even begin
to name all of the horrors that are examined to great detail. We
witness cannibalism, famine and disease. We particularly follow the
exploits of one character, 'Ruth', pregnant with a child before the
nuclear war, we witness the birth of the 'nuclear generation', and
particularly, the exploits of her daughter once she is exposed to what
world and life has become.
When the credits rolled, my brain couldn't tell me to find the remote
and press stop. It was too busy filtering through all the images and
'what if' scenarios that were running through my brain after watching
"Threads". I realise that at the time of this movie's initial release,
nuclear war was a possible threat. It is now almost 16 years later and
this movie still has enough power and grist to tell and show you that
ANYTHING 'nuclear' is wrong.
This is a movie every school child should be forced to watch. I admit
that it may induce nightmares, but this is a movie that has a message
that MUST be received.