Jun 2020
Hey, Miracle Mile is on Demand! I like that movie a lot. I don't see any comments about it here, but I'm sure we've talked about it before.... maybe in the shout box? Anyway, the idea of the movie is that a guy at an all night coffee shop answers a wrong number phone call at a phone booth outside the coffee shop, and is basically told that a nuclear war is about to begin, in a matter of minutes. I'll include a link to that scene, down below... He goes inside and tells the people in the coffee shop what he heard on the phone, and they have to decide what to do. This is all happening at 4:00 AM (in Los Angeles).
One thing I like about it is that it has the guy who played the sergeant from Robocop, the guy who says "Forget it kid. This guy's a serious asshole" in Robocop. The actor's name was Robert DoQui. (He's dead now). He doesn't have a huge part, but he really "brings it," and gets super intense and probably saves a few people's lives.
Possibly the most improbable element of the story is the Denise Crosby character. She is supposed to be some kind of very, very highly educated, bright, quick, self-possessed, organized, well-connected stockbroker or mutual fund manager who happens to be in the coffee shop at 4:00 AM. She has a mobile phone (in 1988, for crying out loud), and happens to be simultaneously speed-reading the Cliff Notes for Gravity's Rainbow, glancing quickly at the Wall Street Journal, and monitoring the Greek stock market (in Greek) on a television when the guy walks in after he takes the nuclear war phone call. I mean, Jesus Christ. It's hard to imagine anyone having their shit more together than her character. The odds of finding somebody like that to bounce ideas off at 4:00 AM in some random coffee shop would have to be, um... rather low. She is able to quickly make a few phone calls that don't ENTIRELY confirm that nuclear war is happening, but give her enough of a sense that it could be that she starts very quickly organizing a jet flight to Antarctica. She mentions that she used to date a guy who worked at the RAND Corporation who had told her some useful info, and she knows the phone numbers of some kind of US Senate staff people and military higher-ups who can verify that SOMETHING very big is going down. I mean, I like Denise Crosby, I like her character, and I like the movie, but Jesus Christ, there is no way in hell you would just happen to bump into someone like that, at a moment like that.
There are other things to like about the movie... such as Kurt Fuller!!! He's pretty hilarious as a pissed-off druggy businessman of some kind, who knows the Denise Crosby character somehow. The main character is Anthony Edwards, and Mare Winningham from the Brat Pack is his love interest. Mykelti Williamson is in it too. He has some pretty funny lines at first, but his role is sad by the end. As are most of the other characters, I suppose.
Anyway, as I said, it's free On Demand right now. Here, this is the scene that gives you the essential idea of what is going on in the movie.
One thing I like about it is that it has the guy who played the sergeant from Robocop, the guy who says "Forget it kid. This guy's a serious asshole" in Robocop. The actor's name was Robert DoQui. (He's dead now). He doesn't have a huge part, but he really "brings it," and gets super intense and probably saves a few people's lives.
Possibly the most improbable element of the story is the Denise Crosby character. She is supposed to be some kind of very, very highly educated, bright, quick, self-possessed, organized, well-connected stockbroker or mutual fund manager who happens to be in the coffee shop at 4:00 AM. She has a mobile phone (in 1988, for crying out loud), and happens to be simultaneously speed-reading the Cliff Notes for Gravity's Rainbow, glancing quickly at the Wall Street Journal, and monitoring the Greek stock market (in Greek) on a television when the guy walks in after he takes the nuclear war phone call. I mean, Jesus Christ. It's hard to imagine anyone having their shit more together than her character. The odds of finding somebody like that to bounce ideas off at 4:00 AM in some random coffee shop would have to be, um... rather low. She is able to quickly make a few phone calls that don't ENTIRELY confirm that nuclear war is happening, but give her enough of a sense that it could be that she starts very quickly organizing a jet flight to Antarctica. She mentions that she used to date a guy who worked at the RAND Corporation who had told her some useful info, and she knows the phone numbers of some kind of US Senate staff people and military higher-ups who can verify that SOMETHING very big is going down. I mean, I like Denise Crosby, I like her character, and I like the movie, but Jesus Christ, there is no way in hell you would just happen to bump into someone like that, at a moment like that.
There are other things to like about the movie... such as Kurt Fuller!!! He's pretty hilarious as a pissed-off druggy businessman of some kind, who knows the Denise Crosby character somehow. The main character is Anthony Edwards, and Mare Winningham from the Brat Pack is his love interest. Mykelti Williamson is in it too. He has some pretty funny lines at first, but his role is sad by the end. As are most of the other characters, I suppose.
Anyway, as I said, it's free On Demand right now. Here, this is the scene that gives you the essential idea of what is going on in the movie.
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