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Christopher walken, martin sheen, brooke adams starring title. Adapted from a stephen king novel, it stars christopher walken as johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to realize that he can tell a persons fate just by touching them. The film switches to slow motion as she is shot and stretches both of her arms out to the sides as she falls. With the dead zone, david cronenberg signed on for his first american financed film, an adaptation of stephen kings 1979 bestseller. This is due solely to the acting ability of christopher walken who brings life to the character of johnny smith a young man on the verge of marrying the girl he loves when his life takes a dramatic change after he has a car accident, rendering him into a coma. Sep 30, 20 jeffrey boams script also evokes the best of its source author.
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