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The Dead Zone
1983
· Movie
· 103 min
B
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1591
- IMDb #1986
- Google retired #1256
- Rotten Tomatoes #1313
- Metacritic #1420
- Letterboxd #2016
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1164
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1955
- Metacritic Audience #1243
- Criticker #1151
- Kinopoisk #2123
- AlloCiné #1455
- Trakt #2419
Every rating
56–90
out of 100
A schoolteacher awakens from a five-year coma to discover he has gained the psychic ability to see a person's future or past through physical touch. This power proves to be a terrible burden, especially when a handshake with a rising politician reveals a horrifying future where the man causes global nuclear annihilation. He must decide how to prevent this destiny.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- Jeffrey Boam
- Based on
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King
- Released
- 21 October 1983
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English, Polish, Russian
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $20.8M
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Awards
7 wins & 4 nominations total
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