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    "description": "\"Though the story takes place in the '80s, it feels eerily timely.\"<b>&mdash;Bustle</b><br><br>Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD&mdash;Mutually Assured Destruction&mdash;is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that&rsquo;s impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled <i>The Eve of Destruction</i>. <br><br> When sixteen-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited. Mingling with Hollywood stars on the set of a phony nuclear war is a perfect distraction from being the only child in her real nuclear family&mdash;which has also been annihilated. Her parents are divorced, and her mother has recently remarried. Her father, an officer in the Strategic Air Command, is absent . . . except when he phones at odd hours to hint at an impending catastrophe. But isn&rsquo;t that his job?<br><br> Laura&rsquo;s only real friend is her new stepbrother, Terrence. She picks him as her plus-one for the film shoot, enraging her fair-weather friends. But their anger is nothing compared to what happens on set after the scripted nuclear explosion. Because nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not.",
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