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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith.
Jul 25, 1986 · Maximum Overdrive: Directed by Stephen King. With Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith. A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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- Stephen King
- 1986-07-25
On June 19, 1987 at 9:47 am Eastern Standard Time, planet Earth passes through the tail of a rogue comet, Rhea-M, for just over a week. In Wilmington, North Carolina, machines suddenly come to life and attack humans. A marquee sign about a bank displays an insult and an ATM calls a bank customer an "asshole."
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.
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 film based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King. The film was directed by King from a screenplay that he wrote himself. The film starred Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murney, Yeardley Smith and J.C. Quinn as "Duncan".
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Maximum Overdrive R Released Jul 25, 1986 1h 37m Horror List 14% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 50% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings After a comet causes a radiation storm on Earth, machines come to...
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