![]() ![]() ![]() A decision is made to go ahead with the grade-school play. A beloved community leader ( Leon Ames, of TV's "Life with Father" many years ago) is a ham-radio operator, and makes contact with a few other places. For the most part, the people in the small northern California town stick together and try to do the best that they can. There is some looting, but it is limited. Most of the film is about what happens then. The movie follows these people long enough for us to know them, to appreciate their personalities, their good and weak points, and then one sunny afternoon the war starts. The kids include a daughter who practices the piano, a son who races his dad up hills on their 10-speed bikes and a little boy who guards the "treasure" in the bottom drawer of his chest. ![]() The mother ( Jane Alexander) is loving, funny and a little harried. The father (Wiliam Devane) is a physical-fitness nut. The movie begins with one of those typical families right out of TV commercials. ![]()
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