Maximum Overdrive
- Original title
- Maximum Overdrive
- Year
- 1986
- Running time
- 97 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Emilio Estévez
- Pat Hingle
- Laura Harrington
- Christopher Murney
- Yeardley Smith
- John Short
- Ellen McElduff
- J.C. Quinn
- Holter Graham
- Frankie Faison
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Stephen King
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Action. Comedy. Horror. Sci-Fi
- Movie Groups
- Stephen King Adaptations
- Synopsis
- For 3 days in 1986, the earth passed through the tail of a mysterious comet. During that time, machines on earth suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators. A small group of people in a truck stop, surrounded by "alive" semi-trailers, set out to stop the machines before the machines stop them.
- Awards
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1986: 2 Nominations for Razzie Awards: Worst Director and Actor (Estevez)
- Critics' reviews
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"It's hard to even imagine a movie so impeccably devoid of everything a movie ought to include."
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"Maximum Overdrive is the classic botch. Good idea, nice effects, bad pacing, porous script, no punch...Too bad. As usual, the premise has promise"
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