Dead Zone (1983)

Director: David Cronenberg  Starring: Christopher Walken  Martin Sheen  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Paramount
Format: DVD
UPC: 00097361183527
Buy.com Sku: 202774864
Item#: V2DW7K
Category Keywords: Based On A Novel  Disturbing  Essential Cinema  Illness  Psychic Forces  Recommended  Theatrical Release 
Rating: 
 
 
Features: DVD, Checkpoint, Widescreen, Dolby, Dolby Digital (5.1)
 


Editor's Note

David Cronenberg's first foray into mainstream filmmaking is also one of his most satisfying pictures. 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. Walken's bravura performance forms the soul of this excellent and touching thriller.

 
Features
Region 1
Keep Case - Checkpoint
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
(unspecified) - English


 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: 9/26/2006
Running Time: 103 minutes
Original Release Date: 1983
Catalog ID: 118352
UPC: 00097361183527
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Herbert Lom
Geza Kovacs
Jackie Burroughs
Anthony Zerbe
Roberta Weiss
Brooke Adams
Christopher Walken
Colleen Dewhurst
Nicholas Campbell
Tom Skerritt
Martin Sheen
Stephen King - Source Writer
Barbara Dunphy - Art Director
Jeffrey Boam - Screenwriter
Debra Hill - Producer
Michael Kamen - Composer
Mark Irwin - Director of Photography
David Cronenberg - Director

 
Professional Reviews
Sight and Sound
"...Cronenberg's most accomplished film so far, created with flair, fluency and welcome understatement..." 03/01/1984 p.150

New York Times
"...A sad, sympathetic and unsettling movie, quietly forceful....Cronenberg's direction is vivid and effective..." 10/21/1983 p.C8

Variety
"...An accomplished psychological thriller....[Cronenberg] gets some appealing performances....Walken links each episode together quite well, accurately conveying the character's growing mental, physical and emotional anguish..." 10/12/1983

USA Today
"...With its small-town milieu, lots of snow and supernatural mayhem, THE DEAD ZONE is one of the better Stephen King movie adaptations..." 09/29/2000 p.11E

Total Film
"...[A] quietly effective Stephen King thriller..." 11/01/2000 p.118

  
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