Product Details

• Actors: Azura Skye, Joshua Leonard, Nathan Baesel, Reg E. Cathey, Diane Salinger
• Directors: Jim Torres
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MTI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001DTWX1G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,949 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "20 Years After" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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20 YEARS AFTER - DVD Movie

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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as expected, much better, October 11, 2008

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Brian Simpson "darfnader" (Kansas City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 20 Years After (DVD)

I was hoping to bank in on the horrid cover and back panel as I picked this guy up off the shelves of my local Blockbuster. However, I discovered after about 45 seconds of viewing that this was not going to be a shlock-fest as I'd hoped. However, it did turn into a wonderfully enchanting independent film about a group of people making sense of themselves and of a world that has fallen to pieces around them. The backgrounds of the main characters are slowly unveiled while their journey pushes them forward, following the only thing they can; the voices they hear over radio waves.

Again, don't be fooled into thinking that 20 YEARS LATER (should be titled Like Moles, Like Rats) or the tag-line of 'AFTER THE BOMBS. AFTER THE PLAGUES. BEFORE THE UNKNOWN' has anything to do with the movie. It's not Planet of the Apes, it's not Soylent Green, it's not I Am Legend, and it's not Children of Men.

Some serious time and love has been put into this film, and it deserves respect.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The only time you'll ever wish for a second nuclear war, December 27, 2008

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Jason (Funkytown) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 20 Years After (DVD)

Bad post-apocalyptic movies and pregnancies are very similar. They're both slow, deliberate, and excruciating. For pregnancy, there are drugs - legal drugs - that can dull the pain, and there are procedures that can speed the process. For horrible movies without a real premise set after a nuclear war, there is no reprieve.

When resources are scarce, with water and food nowhere to be found, it's every man for himself. When Samuel Singleton meets two women squatting in his house - Margaret and Sarah (eight months pregnant) - they decide to take a trip to a spring-fed lake in order to save their lives. Along with a radio host named Michael, they meet up with a colony of survivors living in a system of caves. From there it's a bunch of poorly done hocus-pocus amidst a poor attempt at some sort of pseudo The Road Warrior meets Raising Arizona, as a character similar to Morgana from Excalibur attempts to steal the only baby born in the last 15 years.

It's slow, disjointed, poorly acted, and tediously irritating. The dartboard timing of the soundtrack borders on unnerving, like cats screeching while you're reading. The transitions are abruptly inappropriate, like a cage match breaking out at a kindergarten. The characters have a noxious combination of preposterous acting talent and the ability to elicit angered contempt from the audience.

The plot, characters, and situations are all loosely connected. Like a drugged spider in a futile attempt to weave a web, there really is no chance at saving the movie or the viewer from the inevitable pain that is sure to be worse than child-birth. It's just too bad there wasn't a second nuclear war about 15 minutes into this affront to cinema.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Only redeeming feature is the song, May 5, 2009

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Mr. Motown (Sacramento, CA America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 20 Years After (DVD)

Zillions of logical flaws--people are way too clean, trimmed, and civil. Mostly, they're just too plump--are supplies running low or not? Was there or was there not a nuclear cataclysm so great that it totally destroyed society and blighted agriculture, and if so...?

As the other reviewers have said, "Post-Apocalyptic" nearly requires the adjective "bad". This is even worse than that. In addition to an absolutely nonsensical plot thread (and associated stock caricatures--insane sisters/adopted daughters of "wicked witch")we also have actual fairyland style magic with a psycho-mystic twist courtesy of a cheesy Black "shaman". Imagine Lionel Richie blathering platitudes in Morgan Freeman's very blandest voice.

And for all that, Tara Nevins' rendition of "Stars Fell on Alabama" is worth the rental.