The Dead Zone (1983)
Waking up from a five-year coma after a car accident, former schoolteacher Johnny Smith discovers that he can see people’s futures and pasts when he touches them. His fiancée married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, Greg Stillson, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future.
Released on: October 21, 1983
Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
Director(s): David Cronenberg
Writer(s): Jeffrey Boam
Producer(s): Jeffrey Chernov, Dino De Laurentiis, Debra Hill
Cast: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, Martin Sheen, Nicholas Campbell, Sean Sullivan, Jackie Burroughs, Ramon Estevez, William B. Davis
Additional Crew: Michael Kamen, Mark Irwin, Ronald Sanders
Remake(s): None