CineBad!!!

Was Denise Crosby born with two-tone hair? I ask because I don’t think I’ve ever seen her with a monotone hairdo before. Anyway, this film is about the end of the world. It’s a delightfully cheesy romp into what might happened in L.A. if everyone had an hour left to live.

Harry (ER’s Edwards), learns from a wrong number on a payphone that for some unexplained reason, the Big One is heading for L.A. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Harry is determined to save himself and his new girlfriend Julie (Winningham). Yes, after having been unlucky at love for a while now, Harry bumped into the girl of his dreams at a visit to the aquarium. He stood her up inadvertently after, through a series of humorous events, he unknowingly causes the electricity in his apartment building to go off. This causes his alarm clock to not wake him up.

Now how is he going to explain to the girl of his dreams that he didn’t mean to stand her up, and now they have to get to the airport aboard an airplane bound for Antarctica because the world is about to blow up? What a bad day! Harry races against time, ‘accidentally’ being there for the death of two policemen, teaming up with Mykelti Williamson (then known as Mykel T. Willimson) and running into all sorts of odd characters. Will LA overcome the mass panic?

This movie is full of plot devices, and a spectacularly irritating score by Tangerine Dream. Other than that, it has some interesting things about it. I especially like the ending where they all die.