Kino Lorber have confirmed that they are preparing a Blu-ray release of director Nicholas Meyer's film
The Day After (1983), starring Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, and John Lithgow. The release, which will be sourced from a brand new remaster, is expected to arrive on the market later this year.
Synopsis: The countdown has begun! Against the real-life backdrop of the US deployment of WMDs in Europe during the escalating cold war,this dramatically involving and agonizingly graphic film about nuclear holocaust detonated a direct hit into the heartland of America. Starring Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum and John Lithgow, this controversial, potent drama remains one of the most talked-about programs in television history. When cold-war tensions reach the ultimate boiling point, the inhabitants of a small town in Kansas learn — along with the rest of America — that they have less than 30 minutes before 300 Soviet warheads begin to appear overhead! Can anyone survive this ultimate nightmare...or the nuclear winter that is sure to follow?