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Title: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
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| Dan Aykroyd | ... | Passenger / Ambulance Driver (prologue / segment "Time Out") | |
| Albert Brooks | ... | Car Driver (prologue) | |
| Vic Morrow | ... | Bill Connor (segment "Time Out") | |
| Doug McGrath | ... | Larry (segment "Time Out") | |
| Charles Hallahan | ... | Ray (segment "Time Out") | |
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Rainer Peets | ... | German Officer (segment "Time Out") (as Remus Peets) |
| Kai Wulff | ... | German Officer (segment "Time Out") | |
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Sue Dugan | ... | Waitress No. 1 (segment "Time Out") |
| Debby Porter | ... | Waitress No. 2 (segment "Time Out") | |
| Steven Williams | ... | Bar Patron (segment "Time Out") | |
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Annette Claudier | ... | French Monther (segment "Time Out") |
| Joseph Hieu | ... | Vietnamese (segment "Time Out") | |
| Al Leong | ... | Vietnamese (segment "Time Out") | |
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Stephen Bishop | ... | Charming G.I. (segment "Time Out") |
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Thomas Byrd | ... | G.I. (segment "Time Out") |
Prologue: a driver has a big surprise with his passenger. Segment 1 ("Time Out"): a bigot man hates Jews, Black and Asian people. One day he will live in the World War II, hunted down by KKK and attacked in Vietnam War and feel the effects of his hatred. Segment 2 ("Kick the Can"): In a nursing home, the elder inhabitants learn that their minds can keep them young. Segment 3 ("It's a Good Life"): a traveler hits a boy in a bicycle with her car and takes the boy home. Soon she learns that the powerful boy brought her home indeed. Segment 4 ("Nightmare at 20,000 feet"): a writer is scared to fly and soon he sees a monstrous creature destroying the airplane engines during a stormy night. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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After the opening prologue with DAN AKYROYD and ALBERT BROOKS, as bored drivers on a lonely country highway who like to play pranks, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE offers four stories, supposedly in the vein of stories that Rod Serling wrote for the famous TV series. Not until the final segment, NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET does it offer the kind of fright stuff worthy of being in this anthology.
And it's a minor gem of its kind with JOHN LITHGOW giving an amazingly deft performance as a man totally afraid of flying who should have taken tranquilizers before he peered out the window. What he saw on the wing of the plane would have frightened anyone out of their wits--and, of course, no one believes him.
It's this final episode that makes the film itself worth watching. None of the other segments have enough punch to keep the viewer awake, let alone entertained. VIC MORROW's unfortunate accident came about during filming of a Vietnam sequence which does not appear in this version of the film--but he does give a convincing portrait of a bigot who gets his comeuppance. Very ironic.
Summing up: All of these stories were told with more style and suspense on the old TV shows. Strictly second-rate.