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Maximum Overdrive
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.
1986 · Directed by Stephen King · 98 min · Horror · Action · Science Fiction · 12 frames
Tagline
Imagine your worst nightmare...machines take over the world!
Crew
- Screenplay: Stephen King
- Cinematography: Armando Nannuzzi
- Edited by: Evan A. Lottman
- Production design: Giorgio Postiglione
- Produced by: Martha De Laurentiis
Cast
- Emilio Estevez as Bill Robinson
- Pat Hingle as Hendershot
- Laura Harrington as Brett
- Yeardley Smith as Connie
- John Short as Curt
- Ellen McElduff as Wanda June
- J.C. Quinn as Duncan
- Christopher Murney as Camp Loman
- Holter Graham as Deke
- Frankie Faison as Handy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: DEG
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $7,400,000
- Themes: man vs machine, gas station, roadhouse, dark comedy, siege, lorry, comet, automation, truck, arcade
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