
The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny takes great pleasure in showing his young students the wonders of the natural world. He is also newly engaged to Sarah, a fellow teacher he's known since childhood, and is a good son to his widowed mother, who lives nearby. Johnny's life is nearly perfect... until a near-fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma. Six years later, Johnny finally regains consciousness and discovers that the life he once knew is gone. His mother has passed away, and Sarah has gone on to marry someone else - and the child she and her husband, the local sheriff, are now raising is Johnny's son. But Johnny himself is also not the same person he once was: he now finds himself in possession of amazing psychic powers which allow him to see into the lives of anyone he touches. Before he even leaves the hospital, he helps save the life of a nurse's daughter after having a miraculous vision, in which he sees
John lies in hospital, where Bruce tells him that he has had an 11 hour long brain surgery, and Rebecca is shot dead by the police. John has lost his visions and despairs.
A young homeless girl at a social center where Sarah volunteers has disappeared and John's vision about it makes him contact Walt.
A beautiful woman in a neighbor car at red lights distracts John and he slightly hits a man when they turn green. The man runs away. Touching his car at the hit spot John visualizes the shooting of a man.
John and Bruce find a painting of a young woman by a living legend at John's doorstep. As he touches the painting John visualizes her face covered with her blood.
An autistic boy knocks on John's door. He expresses himself mainly with adventurous drawings that he makes inspired by Tolkien. His father has got a death penalty.
A young man takes up his long dead father's legendary rock carrier, but when John touches the father's Fender guitar, he visualizes him selling it 15 years after his 'death'.
John tries to save a young mother and her infant from a car in a wild river. He saves the boy but visualizes that he must keep him away from the authorities and find his father.
At a school class reunion John touches his former pupil Alex Conners and visualizes him dying in a 'Doomsday' fire.
John gets visions about his father and why he was hospitalized.
Sarah's father has moved into a retirement home nearby where many residents fear to have their souls stolen by the shadow man and it's somehow supported by John's visions.
Greg Stillson's girlfriend is missing and he begs John to help him find her.
Alex Sinclair returns to visit Johnny for Christmas, and a shared vision leads them to an amnesiac old man dressed as Santa being mugged. The muggers are three young boys who Johnny and Alex try to help find their long-lost father. Meanwhile they try to find out who the old amnesiac man they bring home to Johnny's house really is.
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Anthony Michael Hall | Johnny Smith |
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Nicole de Boer | Sarah Bracknell Bannerman |
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Chris Bruno | Sheriff Walt Bannerman |
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John L. Adams | Bruce Lewis |
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Sean Patrick Flanery | Greg Stillson |
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David Ogden Stiers | Reverend Purdy |
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Bill Mondy | Deputy Roscoe |
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Mike Kopsa | Jake Truax |
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Martin Donovan | Malcolm Janus |
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Spencer Achtymichuk | Johnny 'JJ' Bannerman |
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Don S. Davis | Senator Harlan Ellis |
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Chris Shields | Deputy |
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Donny James Lucas | Agent #1 |
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Laura Harris | Miranda Ellis |
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Ian Thompson | Bus Driver |
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Fabrice Grover | FBI Searcher |
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Jennifer Finnigan | Alex Sinclair |
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Gary Chalk | James Stillson |
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Ben Foster | Darren Foldes |
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Edward Asner | Marty Bracknell |
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Michael Adamthwaite | Guard |
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Andrew Airlie | Nathan Burke |
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Brian Markinson | The Collector |
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Patrick Bauchau | Andrew Lyne |
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Michael Cudlitz | Herb Smith |
Nr Discs | 1 |
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Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Watched | |
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Quantity | 1 |
Index | 928 |
Added Date | Aug 06, 2015 17:44:45 |
Modified Date | Jul 16, 2024 09:15:53 |