Question: About 20 years ago I saw an animated film about a middle-aged or elderly couple who were totally unaware that an atomic bomb had gone off. I think they may have had British accents. Do you know the name of this movie?
Answer: It's the quietly devastating When the Wind Blows (1986), based on the graphic novel by English writer-illustrator Raymond Briggs. Briggs' gentle treatment of Jim (voiced by John Mills) and Hilda (Peggy Ashcroft), the lovely, trusting old couple whose misplaced faith in their government precipitates their slow death by radiation poisoning, makes the story all the more haunting.
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