Miracle Mile

Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat quirky day together, Edwards and Winningham plan a tete-a-tete at the all-night restaurant where the girl works. While preparing to call her on a ...more

A charming little flick that combines elements of Night of the Living Dead, The Towering Inferno, and The Morning After into an improbable date movie, Miracle Mile gives Cherry 2000 filmmaker Steven de Jarnatt another chance to prove that a decent cast and a cool premise are more valuable than millions of dollars in special effects. The best classic science fiction stories favored compelling what-if scenarios over razor sharp prose. In the cinematic equivalent, we get workmanlike production ...more