Maximum Overdrive [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Emilio Estevez
  • Actor : Pat Hingle
  • Actor : Laura Harrington
  • Actor : Yeardley Smith
  • Actor : John Short
  • Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Emilio Estevez
  • Creator : Pat Hingle
  • Creator : Armando Nannuzzi
  • Creator : Stephen King
  • Creator : Dino De Laurentiis
  • Creator : Don Levin
  • Creator : Martha De Laurentiis
  • Creator : Mel Pearl
  • Creator : Milton Subotsky
  • Director : Stephen King
  • EAN : 0024543112037
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • Label : 20th Century Fox
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : 20th Century Fox
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2004-09-07
  • Running Time : 97
  • SKU : 8N1-1216-1573
  • Studio : 20th Century Fox
  • UPC : 024543112037

"I'm gonna scare the hell out of you" intones Stephen King in the trailer for his sole directorial effort, the much-maligned Maximum Overdrive. While the end result doesn't live up to that boast, this SF/horror tale isn't as awful as it's been described. King's script (based on his short story "Trucks") focuses on the patrons of a North Carolina truck stop, which comes under attack by a convoy of trucks and other machines animated by Earth's passage through the tail of a "rogue comet". King's fans, tired of half-baked screen adaptations such as Cujo and Children of the Corn, expected a horror home run from Maximum Overdrive and instead got an old-fashioned drive-in movie filled with car crashes, cheapjack gore and fart jokes. Needless to say, they stayed away in droves; the film's failure helped ruin producer Dino De Laurentiis's DEG Films and forced King sheepishly to claim that he had created a modern-day Plan Nine from Outer Space. While the film is torpidly paced and often amateurishly acted, it's no worse than any direct-to-video thriller, and King's ear for dialogue occasionally shines through the gloom. Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle register as a heroic cook and his black-hearted boss, respectively; the cast includes Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson's voice), Giancarlo Esposito and Marla Maples as a victim. --Paul Gaita, Amazon.com

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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