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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 3, 1999
• R2: 7 Mar 2005
Budget $10,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• John Carpenter's Christine (1983)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Demonic Possession, Teenage, Cult Classic, Supernatural, Suspense, Revenge, School / Campus
Tagline: Hell hath no Fury...like Christine.
Plot: Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, CHRISTINE is a dark and violent film about the dangers of obsession. When a unpopular young man, Arnie (Keith Gordon), buys a vintage car to restore, it changes his life completely. The more he works on the car, which he names Christine, the more his personality changes. He becomes moody and dark, spending more and more time with the car and less and less with his friends. The friends become concerned as Arnie's passion for the automobile turns to extreme, and he becomes unstable. But the car has powers over the young man, and takes on a life of its own, becoming as obsessed with its new owner as he is of it. Their devotion to one another quickly becomes violent, and separating Arnie from the car is a deadly task for his friends. With CHRISTINE, director John Carpenter delivers a faithful adaptation of the book by Stephen King. One master of horror adapting another's work seems ideal, and the results are as powerful as expected. With Carpenter's ability to make the supernatural seem plausible, even commonplace, the film excels in evoking plenty of scares and nail biting from the
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 Underrated effort captures teen life fairly well, has a great oldies soundtrack, is directed with a confident and steady hand and ends with a decent final showdown. ... overall it's a watchable effort that stands as one of the better King adaptations outthere.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
It isn't one of Carpenter's best movies, but it is one of the best King adaptations ever to hit the screen. ... Well-produced, well-acted and well-financed, it lacks the low-budget bite of "Halloween" and "The Fog."-- (eSplatter.com)
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| Written by |
Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining |
 | Bill Phillips
Fire with Fire, Physical Evidence, The Beans of Egypt, Maine |
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John Carpenter
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween, Halloween |
 | Alan Howarth
Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween II, They Live |
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