The Dead Zone
1983·United States·103 min.
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Adapted from a Stephen King novel, it stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to realize that he can tell a person's fate just by touching them. Realizing that he can change the future as well, Johnny soon gets intervenes in a number of would-be tragedies. Consequently, he soon becomes famous for his gift, but he longs for his former life, when he still had his job, his fiancee, and a normal life. However, when he shakes hands with a future president of the US (Martin Sheen, in a wonderfully hammy performance) who could end up being the biggest mass murderer since Hitler, Johnny wrestles with what seems to be his destiny.
DirectorDavid Cronenberg
MusicMichael Kamen
CinematographyMark Irwin
CastChristopher Walken·Martin Sheen·Brooke Adams·Tom Skerritt·Herbert Lom·Simon Craig·Anthony Zerbe·Colleen Dewhurst·Nicholas Campbell·Sean Sullivan·Jackie Burroughs·Géza Kovács·Roberta Weiss·Peter Dvorsky·Barry Flatman·Ken Pogue·Bill Copeland·Jack Messinger·Chapelle Jaffe·Cindy Hinds·Helene Udy·Ramon Estevez·Roger Dunn·Vladimir Bondarenko·Claude Rae·John Koensgen·Leslie Carlson·James Bearden·Hardee T. Lineham·William B. Davis·David RigbyShow all
Original titleThe Dead Zone