UW Cinematheque - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair
Miracle Mile | USA | 1989 | 35mm | 87 min. Director: Steve De Jarnatt
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar
It’s the end of the world and only Harry Washello (Edwards) knows it. Late for a date with Julie (Winningham), Harry learns in a phone booth that nuclear weapons have been launched. Is this a joke? Will anyone believe him? Can annihilation be prevented? Kick off Bleak Week in Madison with Steve De Jarnatt’s cult classic, an absurdist up-all-night odyssey across the neon-lit streets of the titular stretch of Los Angeles.
It’s the end of the world and only Harry Washello (Edwards) knows it. Late for a date with Julie (Winningham), Harry learns in a phone booth that nuclear weapons have been launched. Is this a joke? Will anyone believe him? Can annihilation be prevented? Kick off Bleak Week in Madison with Steve De Jarnatt’s cult classic, an absurdist up-all-night odyssey across the neon-lit streets of the titular stretch of Los Angeles.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, June 10, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.