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Following JFK's assassination, a middle-class Texas couple figured that the end was nigh-and proceeded to lock themselves and their three kids in their fallout shelter. Thirty years later, Tina (O-Lan Jones), Scotty (Jim Turner), and Pam (Andrea Stein) have grown-physically, at any rate-and the bizarre rituals that make up their everyday existence are comically chronicled in this dark, barely released farce based on a play written by the principals; final directing credit for Paul Bartel. 81 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.