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Dec 9, 1983 · Christine: Directed by John Carpenter. With Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky. A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
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- Horror, Thriller
- John Carpenter
- 1983-12-09
Christine (titled onscreen as John Carpenter's Christine) is a 1983 American supernatural horror film co-scored and directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky and Harry Dean Stanton.
- $10 million
- December 9, 1983
Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) is a meek teenager who spends his weekends playing Scrabble with his parents (Christine Belford and Richard Darnell), who still treat him as a child. Arnie and his best friend Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell) are going to their school, as usual.
- STEPHEN KING PITCHED THE MOVIE TO GET MADE. Producer Richard Kobritz helped adapt Stephen King’s novel Salem’s Lot as a TV miniseries in 1979, and the author asked Kobritz whether he’d be up for adapting any more of his works.
- JOHN CARPENTER SIGNED ON SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WANTED A JOB. Kobritz approached John Carpenter after the critical and financial failure of his 1982 adaptation of The Thing, which is now widely regarded as one of the filmmaker’s best.
- CARPENTER AND THE SCREENWRITER WERE STEPHEN KING VETERANS. Christine wasn’t Carpenter’s first foray into adapting the twisted mind of Stephen King. He was originally supposed to direct the adaptation of Firestarter, but was fired from the project because of the poor performance of The Thing.
- HORROR HITS AT THE TIME FORCED CHANGES TO THE SCRIPT. In King’s book, Christine is seemingly haunted by her former owner, Roland D. LeBay, who appears to mild-mannered nerd Arnie in the backseat of the car as a rotting corpse taunting the car’s new owner.
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Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession with the car, to the alarm of his jock friend, Dennis ...
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