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Horror Thriller
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Christine, 1983

Starring: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell

Directed by: John Carpenter

Written by: Stephen King

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 110 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.4

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Christine can be described as scary, suspenseful, and tense. The plot revolves around obsession, deadly occurences, and technology gone awry. The main genres are thriller and horror. In approach, Christine is serious. It is set, at least in part, in the suburbs. It takes place in the 1980s. Christine is based on a book. It is well suited for teens and a boys' night. Note that it involves profanity and violent content.

Summary of Christine

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 audience.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	9 December 1983
Runtime:	110 min

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Keith Gordon

as Arnie Cunningham

John Stockwell

as Dennis Guilder

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Christine shows her age badly. So many years have passed since this movie has been made, and watching it now, you cringe at the bad dialogue and cheesy over-the-top characters. I realize that much of this is based on the book I have read, but I... Read and rate it

22.March.2009
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by: Matthew
Matthew rated this movie4/10Disappointing

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