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Release Date
• USA: Apr 23, 1993
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 28, 1999
Budget USD 15,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 2 minutes
Country USA
Studio Orion
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Other Titles
• The Dark Half
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Genre: Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Murder, Psychodrama, Disturbing, Suspense, Police, Ghosts, Animals, Blackmail, Investigation
Tagline: Serious writer or serial killer? George is in two minds.
Plot: Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) is a happily married family man with a successfully two-faced career as a writer. On the one hand, he publishes respected but poorly-selling scholarly works under his own name. It is under the name George Stark, however, that he sells millions of books with his signature strain of extremely violent action novels. When Thad makes the decision to write only under his own name, he stages a PR-friendly burial for his pen name which receives prominent media coverage. After this event, it’s not long before townspeople somehow connected to Thad start turning up dead, with all clues pointing to the unassuming author. Is there a second party trying to frame Thad? Could the murders be somehow connected to the fragments of a undeveloped twin removed from Thad’s brain when he was a boy? When the sheriff (Michael Rooker) finds Thad’s fingerprints at the crime scenes, the unsuspecting author’s life spins increasingly out of control. Director George Romero adapts frequent collaborator Stephen King’s 1989 best-seller into a tight mainstream thriller with a fine dual performance from
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 Overlong adaptation of Stephen King's novel is well made and watchable, but requires too much patience and thought to appeal to all.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
The Dark Half is an entertaining horror / thriller with loads of suspense and a great story, that also has one minor disadvantage. After seeing the film once, you don't want to see it again, because without the suspense of the story, there isn't really alot left to entertain you. It's a great movie to rent, but it's not worth buying...  --Ziggy Sin (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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Stephen King
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