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“#The Dead Zone is a Masterpiece \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 by Eric Vespe<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0<\/i>T<\/i><\/b>he Daily Stream<\/i><\/b>, an ongoing series<\/a> in which the \/Film team shares what they\u2019ve been watching, why it\u2019s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)<\/i><\/p>\n

The Movie:<\/strong>\u00a0The Dead Zone<\/em><\/p>\n

Where You Can Stream It:<\/strong>\u00a0Hulu
\nThe Pitch:\u00a0The Dead Zone<\/em><\/strong> is often overshadowed by the other big Stephen King<\/strong> adaptations, like The Shawshank Redemption<\/em>, Carrie<\/em>, It<\/em>, or The Shining<\/em>. But Christopher Walken<\/strong>\u2018s iconic leading performance alone lets the movie stand shoulder to shoulder with the best King adaptations.<\/p>\n

Why It\u2019s Essential Viewing:\u00a0<\/strong>What you have here is David Cronenberg<\/strong> at the height of his directorial powers adapting one of Stephen King\u2019s best books with a juicy part for Christopher Walken to sink his teeth into.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve somehow missed this movie (or the book, or the Anthony Michael Hall TV series that ran for a surprisingly long time), the basic premise is this: Johnny Smith is an average guy, with an average name, leading a fairly average, but happ<\/a>y, life. One night, he gets into a car accident, falls into a coma, and wakes up 5 years later with a gift. Or a curse, depending on how you look at it. With a simple touch, he can see the future, and sometimes the past. For instance, when he touches a nurse shortly after coming out of the coma, he sees her daughter screaming in her bed, the room on fire, and he warns her in enough time to save the little girl.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all well and good, but Johnny Smith just wants his old, mundane life back. He wants the love of his life, who has moved on and married someone else, and the family they dreamed of starting together. He wants to be a boring teacher trying to get the kids to read Edgar Allan Poe. What he doesn\u2019t want is to be treated like a sideshow attraction.
\nBut Johnny\u2019s heart is too big. He cares too much and he helps people when he can, building a kind of small-town celebrity around him, a spotlight he doesn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

The whole thing culminates with a politician named Greg Stillson (played with great zeal by Martin Sheen<\/strong>) who just so happens to be a corrupt scumbag who will eventually become president and start a nuclear war. Johnny knows this and has to figure out what to do about it.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s particularly amazing about this movie is that Walken is just on the edge of becoming the Walken most of us know; that borderline over-the-top guy that\u2019s fun to try to impersonate with your friends. He has those moments in this movie. \u201cThe ICE! Is gonna BREAK!\u201d comes to mind.<\/p>\n

But for the most part, this is the Walken that hit the stage in the \u201970s. He\u2019s fully invested and plays this part with haunting melancholy. It\u2019s a nuanced performance that people sometimes forget about, probably because of Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic.<\/p>\n