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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   8,668 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Stephen King (novel)
Tom Holland (teleplay)
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Release Date:
14 May 1995 (USA) more
Tagline:
Prepare yourself for the flight of your life!
Plot:
Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
‘Buffy’ & ‘Mad Men’ Writer To Pen ‘Fright Night’ Remake
 (From Screen Rant. 12 November 2009, 10:49 AM, PST)

Stephen King is coming back to TV
 (From AOL - TVSquad. 29 September 2009, 3:03 PM, PDT)

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Bizarre King story falters from poor execution more (164 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Patricia Wettig ... Laurel Stevenson
Dean Stockwell ... Bob Jenkins

David Morse ... Captain Brian Engle

Mark Lindsay Chapman ... Nick Hopewell
Frankie Faison ... Don Gaffney
Baxter Harris ... Rudy Warwick
Kimber Riddle ... Bethany Simms
Christopher Collet ... Albert Kaussner

Kate Maberly ... Dinah Catherine Bellman

Bronson Pinchot ... Craig Toomey
Tom Holland ... Harker
Julie Arnold Lisnet ... Aunt Vicki
Michael Louden ... Richard Logan
Kymberly Dakin ... Doris Heartman
David Forrester ... Danny Keene
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Stephen King's The Langoliers (USA) (complete title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence and some sci-fi terror.
Runtime:
180 min | 60 min (3 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Trivia:
When Dean Stockwell's character says that it is not possible to travel through time, he mentions stopping the Kennedy assassination. In "Quantum Leap" (1989), Dean Stockwell's character helped Sam (Scott Bakula) try to stop the Kennnedy assassination through time travel. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the survivor landed LAX, Brian is wearing headset. At the next shot, he is not wearing it. Finally before crashing the plane, he is wearing the headset again without putting it back. more
Quotes:
Roger Toomy: Are you gonna look at the big picture or do I have to let *them* have you?
[Turns Craigs head toward the window]
Craig Toomy: They don't even exist!
Roger Toomy: Oh yes. They exist. They were here and they'll be back.
[Grabs Craig by the ear and pulls him up]
Roger Toomy: They'll be back for you, you lazy sack of dirt!
Craig Toomy: What can I do? What can I do?
Roger Toomy: [Mimics him cruelly] "What can I do?" "What can I do?" You do whatever you have to do, and you get to Boston! Because if you don't, Craiggy Weggy, they are gonna chew your eyes right out of your head!
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References Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) more

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Why could only sleeping people go through the rip?
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20 out of 23 people found the following comment useful.
Bizarre King story falters from poor execution, 29 January 2007
5/10
Author: MartianCreature from Redondo Beach, CA

It's hard to rate this movie. The movie has moments of creative genius, others with banal stupidity. Some passengers on an overnight red eye flight awaken to discover most of their fellow passengers inexplicably missing, as if whisked away in some sort of biblical rapture.

This is a delightfully creepy mystery, as is the abandoned airport where the plane lands, but the film bogs down in its irrationally slow reveal of the facts. The director compacts a 90-minute script into hours and hours of excessive subplots. Some of these are necessary for character development, (since the movie focuses on how these different personalities react to the situation), but the script burdens itself with a lot of clutter. Some of the actors overact, others underact. I blame the weak direction, as even David Morse seems awkward at times.

Worst is the inconsistency of the menacing attackers. It takes them a zillion years to cut through some fields--you see objects collapse in the distance, but you see this same "approaching unseen monster" shot again and again. Then, when the things do emerge, they race around at a hundred miles an hour. The nature of how they go about annihilating their targets follows no logical pattern. The things are so bizarre looking they are both funny and scary, so you don't know whether you're supposed to laugh or not. The "corruptions of the time stream" are not consistent, either. It's as if the script made up rules how this would work, and then changed those rules whenever it felt like it.

Even though some of the effects are confusing, others are downright cool. I love the portal; it was ethereal yet sinister at the same time. It evokes the intended curiosity: what lies beyond it? Overall, the movie is so weird that it holds your interest, but don't expect any sane continuity. If you look for sound thought in this one, you'll wind up as nuts as the movie is.

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