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Maximum Overdrive
- Theatrical - Wide 1986-07-25
- Cast Emilio Estevez Pat Hingle Laura Harrington Yeardley Smith Christopher Murney
- Directed by Stephen King
- Written by Stephen King
Box Office Gross:
$7,400,000
Running Time:
98 minutes
Language:
English
Production Company:
DEG
Genres:
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Synopsis
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 murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people... See more set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.
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