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A two disc Blu-ray special edition was released in 2018 by video specialty label , presenting the film in high definition	He made it clear to ABC that no big TV or film stars should be in The Day After
Denise Dahlberg, frantic after days in the family's basement shelter, runs outside, and Klein, who vows to her father that he'll bring her back, does so, but not before both have been exposed to very high doses of radiation	He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war"

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Lawrence was also agreed upon as being the "geographic center" of the United States.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004): Director Nicholas Meyer felt the original script was padded, and suggested cutting out an hour of material to present the whole film in one night
The Day After: There were no commercial breaks after the nuclear attack
The Day After: Network censors had opinions about the inclusion of specific scenes, and ABC itself, eventually intent on "trimming the film to the bone", made demands to cut out many scenes Meyer strongly lobbied to keep

He did not want the censors to censor the film, nor the film to be a regular Hollywood disaster movie from the start	Oakes, at last aware he has sustained lethal exposure to radiation, returns to Kansas City on foot to see the site of his home before he dies
Finally Meyer and his editor Bill Dornisch balked	Denise and Danny Dahlberg, and Klein, finally leave for Harrisonville and the Dahlberg farm, when it becomes clear to them they can't be treated medically for their injuries

But unfortunately, The Day After Tomorrow is more concerned with politics than good storytelling.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004): The network stuck with their two night broadcast plan, and Meyer filmed the entire three-hour script, as evidenced by a 172-minute work-print that has surfaced
The Day After Tomorrow (2004): In the initial 1983 broadcast of The Day After, when the U
The Day After Tomorrow (2004): Suddenly, less emphasis was put on Kansas City, the decision was made to have the city completely annihilated in the script, and Lawrence was made the primary location in the film

They were hoping to find some real Midwesterners for smaller roles	The action itself focuses on the residents of , , and of several family farms near nuclear
Stoddard asked his executive vice president of television movies and miniseries Stu Samuels to develop a script	McCoy and Oakes, both outside immediately after the explosions, have been exposed without their knowledge to lethal doses of radiation

And the piss-poor script doesn't help any, as the characters are one-dimensional and the plot is ridiculous.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004): The Dahlberg family lives on their farm twenty miles away from the Sweetsage launch site, in , 40 miles from Kansas City
The Day After: ABC, Hume, and Papazian realized that for the scene depicting the nuclear blast, they would have to use state-of-the-art special effects and they took the first step by hiring some of the best special effects people in the business to draw up some storyboards for the complicated blast scene
The Day After: Kansas City was not bombed in the original script, although was, making Kansas City suffer shock waves and the horde of survivors staggering into town