The nuclear family goes literal — and these two are ready to detonate.
A darkly comic thriller set in the atomic age about a husband and wife who will stop at nothing to become the perfect, ideal nuclear family.
Acting
Alice Eve and Finn Wittrock's smiling-through-the-pain chemistry.
Production
Atomic age aesthetics so sharp you could cut yourself.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like a sitcom written by a sociopath.
Director
Max Mayer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film weaponizes Eisenhower-era advertising imagery — smiling families in fallout shelters — to suggest the nuclear family was always a doomsday cult.
Max Mayer, known for softer dramas like 'Adam,' reportedly pitched this as 'Mad Men meets The Americans, but they're on the same team.' The tonal whiplash was intentional.
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