Testament
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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 4, 1983 |
Starring:
Jane Alexander, Leon Ames, Lilia Skala, Lukas Haas, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Anglim, Rebecca De Mornay, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, William Devane
Summary:
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
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Alexander's performance makes the film possible to watch without unbearable heartbreak, because she is brave and decent in the face of the horror. And the last scene, in which she expresses such small optimism as is still possible, is one of the most powerful movie scenes I've ever seen.
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A haunting, emotionally devastating movie. [04 Nov 1983, p.C21]
Save for some sentimental scenes, it's a powerful film, with a powerful performance by Alexander. [04 Nov 1983, p.E]
Testament does manage to convey in its surprisingly quiet and non-theatrical way the very point that its creators surely wanted to make: that human stupidity can destroy the world, but it cannot erase human dignity. [08 Nov 1983]
It calls attention not to the fate of the earth, but to the numbing effect of bad, manipulative art. [14 Nov 1983, p.98]
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