However, when he uses a phone booth to contact Chip's father, he reaches a man who says his son is a soldier. There is still no confirmation any of this is real, and Harry wonders if he has sparked a massive false panic in the example of Chicken Little. Julie has also tried to find a pilot on her own, and in the moments it takes to find her, Los Angeles descends into violent chaos. Desperate to reach the airport and not having a car, Harry finds a helicopter pilot and tells him to meet them on the roof of the Mutual Benefit Life Building, where Landa ordered a helicopter and a large amount of supplies to be delivered. When he finds Julie and tells her what is happening, she notes that there is no confirmation of the attack. In the process he inadvertently causes several deaths and is deeply shaken by that, yet still he goes on. Harry is helped and hindered by various strangers, who are initially unaware of the impending apocalypse. When the owner refuses to make any stops, Harry, unwilling to leave without Julie, arranges to meet the group at the airport and jumps from the truck. Most of the customers and staff leave with her in the owner's delivery van. She verifies that the launch codes Chip mentioned are real and, convinced of the danger, immediately charters private jets out of Los Angeles International Airport to a compound in a region in Antarctica with no rainfall. As the patrons scoff at his story, one of them, a businesswoman named Landa, places calls to politicians in Washington and finds that they are all suddenly heading for 'the extreme Southern Hemisphere'. Harry, confused and not entirely convinced of the authenticity of the information, wanders back into the diner and tells the other customers what he has heard. An unfamiliar voice picks up the phone and tells Harry to forget everything he heard and 'go back to sleep' before disconnecting. He pleads with Harry to call his father and apologize for some past wrong before he is interrupted and presumably shot dead. When Harry asks who is calling, Chip realizes that he has dialed the wrong area code. The phone rings as soon as the previous call ends and Harry answers, hearing a frantic man named Chip urgently warning that war will break out in less than seventy minutes. Harry tries to call Julie on a payphone, but only reaches her answering machine, where he leaves an apology. When Harry awakes that night he realizes what has happened and rushes to the shop, arriving at 4 AM. However, due to a power failure, Harry's alarm does not go off and Julie leaves for home.

They spend the afternoon together, and arrange to meet at midnight after her shift at a local coffee shop. Harry Washello and Julie Peters meet at the La Brea Tar Pits and immediately fall in love.

It is titled after the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, where most of the events takes place.

The film takes place in a single day, and mostly in real-time. Both the period and nighttime setting leave characters and the audience uncertain as to whether or not the doomsday claims hold any authenticity. The film depicts the panic surrounding a supposed doomsday brought on by a sudden outbreak of war and its oncoming nuclear holocaust. Miracle Mile is a 1988 American apocalyptic thriller drama film written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham.

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