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Maximum Overdrive

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 38m
  • 24

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Stephen King

Producer:

Martha Schumacher, Dino De Laurentiis, Don Levin

Writer:

Stephen King

Release Date:

Jan 1, 1986

Runtime:

1hr 38m

Synopsis

A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

Cast

  • Emilio Estevez
  • Pat Hingle
  • Laura Harrington
  • Yeardley Smith
  • John Short
  • Ellen McElduff
  • J.C. Quinn
  • Christopher Murney
  • Holter Graham
  • Frankie Faison

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Metacritic

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Based on 8 Critics
6.4

USER SCORE (23)

Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Reviews
50

Maximum Overdrive is the classic botch. Good idea, nice effects, bad pacing, porous script, no punch...Too bad. As usual, the premise has promise. [26 July 1986, p.C1]

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Metacritic review by Bill Cosford
Bill Cosford
Miami Herald
25

A mess of a movie, a no chills nightmare about what happens to a group of rubes at a Carolina truck stop when the machines go nuts. [29 July 1986, p.3]

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Metacritic review by Rick Kogan
Rick Kogan
Chicago Tribune
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