***SPOILERS*** For years super survivalist Harry Dobbs, Joe Mantegna, has secretly built himself a nuclear fall-out shelter in the basement of his house outside of Kansas City. Feeling that WWIII will come sooner or later Dobbs is going to make sure that if it does he and his family will be one of the few survivors of that world and civilization ending conflict.
It's when a war breaks out in the Middle-East and looks like it's going to involve both the US & USSR Harry attempts to have his wife Sally, Jean Allen,and two children Jason & Deidre,Adam Raber & Danice McKallan, stay in his bomb proof basement with him. But they, in seeing that he going off his nut, take off for her mom's home leaving Harry all alone all by himself . It's only Harry's good friend and fellow survivalist Nick, Jon Gries, who works at Harry's gun shop in town who ends up in the fall-out shelter together with Harry as a nuclear bomb goes off. With all communications to the shelter knocked out all both Harry & Nick can tell in whats happening outside, with outside sensors, is that the radiation outside the fall-out shelter has reached lethal levels.
****SPOILERS**** As time passes by the radiation levels are still as deadly as they were after the bomb or bombs went off and after some six months stuck underground Nick finally cracks and before Harry can do him in, thus having all the food water and air supply in the shelter all for himself, leaves the shelter. It's later when Nick in finding nothing but death and darkness outside tries to get back in Harry leaves him to his fate, death from radiation poisoning, not wanting to suffer the same fate,by not opening the fall-out shelter, that he did. With his food and water supply now exhausted Harry finally decides to leave his "safe house" not caring if he lives or dies knowing that the fate that awaits him outside is far better then inside where he'll slowly die from thirst and starvation.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It's a good thing that Harry didn't get out of his shelter since if he did he would have found out just what a fool he really was. Instesd of the world coming to an end in a nuclear holocaust it awoke to a new beginning of world peace in the worlds nations finally realizing just how futile nuclear or even conventional war really is. The trouble is that Harry in his WWIII and survivalist induced paranoia would never lived to see it.
It's when a war breaks out in the Middle-East and looks like it's going to involve both the US & USSR Harry attempts to have his wife Sally, Jean Allen,and two children Jason & Deidre,Adam Raber & Danice McKallan, stay in his bomb proof basement with him. But they, in seeing that he going off his nut, take off for her mom's home leaving Harry all alone all by himself . It's only Harry's good friend and fellow survivalist Nick, Jon Gries, who works at Harry's gun shop in town who ends up in the fall-out shelter together with Harry as a nuclear bomb goes off. With all communications to the shelter knocked out all both Harry & Nick can tell in whats happening outside, with outside sensors, is that the radiation outside the fall-out shelter has reached lethal levels.
****SPOILERS**** As time passes by the radiation levels are still as deadly as they were after the bomb or bombs went off and after some six months stuck underground Nick finally cracks and before Harry can do him in, thus having all the food water and air supply in the shelter all for himself, leaves the shelter. It's later when Nick in finding nothing but death and darkness outside tries to get back in Harry leaves him to his fate, death from radiation poisoning, not wanting to suffer the same fate,by not opening the fall-out shelter, that he did. With his food and water supply now exhausted Harry finally decides to leave his "safe house" not caring if he lives or dies knowing that the fate that awaits him outside is far better then inside where he'll slowly die from thirst and starvation.
***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It's a good thing that Harry didn't get out of his shelter since if he did he would have found out just what a fool he really was. Instesd of the world coming to an end in a nuclear holocaust it awoke to a new beginning of world peace in the worlds nations finally realizing just how futile nuclear or even conventional war really is. The trouble is that Harry in his WWIII and survivalist induced paranoia would never lived to see it.