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The Dead Zone is a 1983 American science-fiction thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay, by Jeffrey Boam, is based on the 1979 novel of the same title by Stephen King. The film stars Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Anthony Zerbe, and Colleen Dewhurst.
- $7.1 million or $10 million
- Michael Kamen
- October 21, 1983
- Debra Hill
Oct 21, 1983 · The Dead Zone: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom. A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
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- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- David Cronenberg
- 1983-10-21
Rated: 4/5 Sep 25, 2007 Full Review Joe Lipsett Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network The Dead Zone is a better Stephen King film than a David Cronenberg film. There's some great ...
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- David Cronenberg
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- Christopher Walken
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The Dead Zone. Based on the novel by Stephen King, a shy school teacher awakes from a coma to learn that 5 years have passed and that he can see into someone's past or future by touching them. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
- 99 min
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"The Dead Zone" does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural. Like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," it tells its story so strongly through the lives of sympathetic, believable people that we not only forgive the gimmicks, we accept them. There is pathos in what happens to the Christopher Walken character in this movie and that pathos would ...
Teacher Johnny Smith gets in a horrible accident which forces him into a coma for five years. Once Johnny wakes up, he discovers he has the ability to read a person's life just by making physical contact with them. When the local police find out about Johnny's "powers", they bring him in on a murder case.
Oct 21, 1983 · The Dead Zone. Waking up from a five-year coma after a car accident, former schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) discovers that he can see people’s futures and pasts when he touches them. His fiancée (Brooke Adams) married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems.
