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Maximum Overdrive

Cast

Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith View All


Crew

Stephen King (Screenplay), Stephen King (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 25th, 1986
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
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 homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
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Joel
King may have dismissed the film as a "moron movie", but coked out of his face or not, part of me believes King secretly is proud of Maximum Overdrive.
Iroquois
Maximum Overdrive - based on the short story "Trucks" about (you guessed it) trucks that come to life and start terrorising humans - is not without its charm.
blibblobblib
Like with a lot of Steven King adaptations, you know the story is going to be good, you know there is going to be some wonderful characters and you know there's also going to be some dark comedy and [i]Maximum Overdrive[/i] delivers all of this. .


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