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Miracle Mile is a 1988 thriller film directed by Steve de Jarnatt and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time. It is named after the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles where most of the action takes place.

The film takes place in a single day and night, beginning as the two main characters, Harry and Julie, meet and are immediately attracted to each other. They make a date for later in the evening, but fail to meet due to a quirk of fate. While they are apart, Harry receives a wrong-number phone call and is told that, unbeknowst to everyone else, nuclear war is about to break out in seventy minutes. He searches frantically for Julie, helped and hindered by various strangers who are initially unaware of the impending apocalypse.

As the story reaches a climax the news of the nuclear exchange breaks, and Los Angeles descends into violent panic. The central characters question whether they may have created the rumours and if the war is really happening; but it is. The final scenes graphically depict the arrival of nuclear missiles, and their deaths in the blast.

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