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Metz, Walter (2004). "'Blockbusters That Failed and the Critics Who Love Them': High Theory and Low Culture in The Postman, Deep Impact, and Wild, Wild West". Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema. Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 0820474037.

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"The film did poorly in US theaters, grossing only $17.6 million in spite of high quality performances by Costner, Patton and Williams coupled with an inspiring theme depicting how crisis can bring out an apparently ordinary man's latent courage and leadership abilities."

Article Rewrite

I tagged the plot summary section of this article with both the plot and grammar tags. I would rewrite the section myself, but I haven't actually seen this movie so I'm afraid that in fixing grammar I might mistakenly change a plot point. Hopefully someone will take the initiative here though. Ronark (talk) 03:11, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is Richard Starkey supposed to refer to Ringo Starr? If not, it should be delinked.
What's a bodyfather? AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 10:50, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Postman is asked to serve as a "bodyfather" for a couple, the husband being infertile, so it is used as a term for surrogate father. Naaman Brown (talk) 13:44, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fallout 3

Is it just me or is the plot of this movie similar to the ones used in the Fallout video game series? Perhaps it's possible the games' story was based on this movie somewhat. 98.114.237.231 (talk) 00:08, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The first Fallout game was released three months before this movie. There is no chance for them to have based the game off the movie, or vice versa. The only part that is similar is nuclear war. 184.89.179.138 (talk) 10:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Plot cleanup

The opening bits of the article state that the movie is set in an undisclosed apocalypse, while the first line of the plot says it is a post-nuclear war apocalypse. Can someone who has seen the movie please clarify this? 184.89.179.138 (talk) 10:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah another part mentions an environmental apocalypse... that's not true either, as far as I can tell. Pretty sure it's nuclear war. Drhamad (talk) 02:43, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Significantly rewrote the plot section. There is little referance in the movie to the cause of the apocalypse. There are referances to "strange weather", "plague", "bugs", "3 year winters" and an implication that Nathan Holn exacerbated social trouble with no referance to nuclear war. I changed the first sentances to reflect that. 98.164.125.58 (talk) 19:44, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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 Yeah another part mentions an environmental apocalypse... that's not true either, as far as I can tell.  Pretty sure it's nuclear war. [[User:Drhamad|Drhamad]] ([[User talk:Drhamad|talk]]) 02:43, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 Significantly rewrote the plot section. There is little referance in the movie to the cause of the apocalypse. There are referances to "strange weather", "plague", "bugs", "3 year winters" and an implication that Nathan Holn exacerbated social trouble with no referance to nuclear war. I changed the first sentances to reflect that.
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