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Maximum Overdrive

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Maximum Overdrive (1986)

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Reviews Counted:11

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Rotten:9

Average Rating:2.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: A nightmare world of machines are taking over the Earth. At first the problems seem minor as gas pumps stop pumping fuel, video games flash and beep uncontrollably, and soda machines spit change... A nightmare world of machines are taking over the Earth. At first the problems seem minor as gas pumps stop pumping fuel, video games flash and beep uncontrollably, and soda machines spit change and soda pop wildly. However, when the carnage begins, a small group of people make a last stand against a horde of massive 18-wheelers. A comic horror flick from Stephen King, based on his short story "Trucks." [More]

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murvey

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murvey, Yeardley Smith

Director: Stephen King

Director: Stephen King
Story: Stephen King

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Truck stop attacked by mechanical objects, including trucks, gone awry! Based on Stephen King story.

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Clint Morris
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This is why other people usually direct King's writing.

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03/01/04
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Maximum Crap. It sorta revived AC/DC, if that matters.

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06/18/03
Alex Sandell
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Jon Pareles
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Most of the characters are so annoying that you want them to die ... a recipe' for a railroad-spike lobotomy migraine

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Brian Mckay
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A suitably schlocky Stephen King story.

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02/10/03
Shannon J. Harvey
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10/18/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

" 'Maximum Tedium' -- the year

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07/29/02
James Sanford
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Kalamazoo Gazette

When Novelists Direct!

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