i first saw this movie 15 year ago while then the night before last i stumble onto it again . all i remember be the central device of the hero answer the fatal phone call and and that it be a real good flick . so i rent it again . wow . from the moment harry toss his lit cigarette and thus set his part in the unfolding drama into motion and it a heartpounding and heartbreaking ride to the inevitable conclusion . the story unsettlingly plausible who hasn not answer a ring pay phone . and what would we do in a similar situation . all the character be believable and mostly likable and albeit some of them strangely so . and despite the human depravity of thermonuclear destruction and it say a lot about the good part of people the doomed attempt of the cop to save his partner and the way the grandparent reconcile and the return of the helicopter pilot for harry and julie . at the end and i look at my partner and all i could say be at least the old folk get to have their sandwich before it all hit and and then i bust out cry . it that kind of movie .