Los Angeles, California. Anthony Edwards is suppose to pick up his
waitress girlfriend, Mare Winningham, after she gets off work at the diner at
midnight. The power goes out, so he oversleeps and by the time he gets to the
diner she's long gone. He calls her from a payphone and leaves a message. The
phone rings and he answers it, except it's not his gf, but instead some dude
who's raving like a maniac and screaming in code about nuclear war. Anthony is
really disturbed by the phone call and goes back inside the diner. As fate would
have it, a government worker is inside and when she hears about the phone call
she freaks out and starts making
frantic phone calls on her gigantic mobile phone. Is it just a prank call or is
it real? Either way, it sets off a snowballing chain of events that's fairly
exciting.
The story idea is fantastic, but unfortunately the budget looked to be
pretty low, the 1980's special effects are extremely dated, the casting was
weak, there's hardly any violence and the tension was zero. Interesting
movie that's still worth watching if you've into nuclear war stories. I
think with a bigger budget, the right director and a much darker script MIRACLE
MILE could be remade into a blockbuster thriller or a limited series on HBO.