The film is about a suburban American family, and what happens to that family after a nuclear war. It is not a science-fiction movie, and it doesn’t have any special effects, and there are no big scenes of buildings blowing over and people disintegrating. We never see a mushroom cloud. We never even know who started the war. Instead, Testament, is a tragedy about manners: It asks how we might act toward one another, how our values might stand up in the face of an overwhelming catastrophe.”
-Robert Ebert
1983, USA, 90 minutes. Directed by Lynne Littman.
