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The Dead Zone

Movie (1983)

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him. Unfortunately, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, he is involved in a wreck with an 18-wheeler and is in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes up from it, he discovers he has an ability to see into other people's lives, past, present and future, by coming into physical contact.

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Released:	Oct 21st, 1983
Budget:	$10,000,000.00
Revenue:	N/A

The Dead Zone Main Cast

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Christopher Walken
plays Johnny Smith

Brooke Adams
plays Sarah Bracknell

Tom Skerritt
plays Sheriff George Bannerman

Herbert Lom
plays Dr. Sam Weizak

Anthony Zerbe
plays Roger Stuart

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The poem Johnny reads in the beginning of the film is the end of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
SPOILER: In the "nuclear war" scene, Greg Stillson, Martin Sheen's character, threatens to "hack off" someone's hand and put it on the scanning screen. An earlier version of the script actually had Stillson shooting the man and putting his dead hand on the screen.
Martin Sheen's character says he has had a vision that he will be the President of the United States. Sheen went on to play the President of the United States in the mini series "Kennedy" (1983) and in The West Wing.
The film makes reference to Sleepy Hollow which, like this film, is about a schoolteacher. In the novel, Johnny Smith compares his coma and subsequent recovery to Rip Van Winkle, another short story written by Washington Irving.

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