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French Theatrical Release Poster

MaximumOverdriveDVD

A maximum overdrive dvd.

Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 film based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King. The film was directed by King from a screenplay that he wrote himself. The film starred Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murney, Yeardley Smith and J.C. Quinn as "Duncan".

Plot[]

The movie opens with a shot of Earth surrounded by green fog and states that on June 19, 1987, apocalyptic mayhem ensues when a strange radiation from a closely passing rogue comet, Rhea-M, causes all manner of mechanical and electrical devices from household appliances to vehicles across the planet Earth to become sentient, self-aware and genocidal for eight days, twenty-nine minutes, and twenty-three seconds.

Marauding big rig trucks trap a small group of people in a fictional roadside truck stop called "The Dixie Boy" just outside Wilmington, North Carolina. When the trucks begin demanding more than blood (they order the humans to pump diesel), the Dixie Boy survivors realize they will become enslaved by their own machines, and they must escape to Haven Island just off the coast of North Carolina, on which no vehicles or machines are permitted.

Bill Robinson rallies the survivors; they use a cache of guns found hidden under the diner. The trucks fight back themselves, at one point human fatalities result from an M274 "Mule" firing its mounted M60 machine gun into the building.

Eventually, the survivors escape to the docks where the featured Green Goblin semi kills one more trucker. The semi is destroyed and the humans sail off to safety.

At the end of the movie, a perfunctory title card strongly implies that extraterrestrials were behind the homicidal machines as part of a preliminary invasion. The machines are stopped and the invasion ends with the destruction of a UFO by a Soviet "weather satellite" equipped with nuclear missiles and laser cannons.

Notes[]

"Dixie Boy" is also the name of a truck stop in the Syfy television series Haven.

Cast[]

  • Emilio Estevez as Bill Robinson
  • Pat Hingle as Bubba Hendershot
  • Laura Harrington as Brett Brooks
  • Yeardley Smith as Connie
  • John Short as Curtis Spaulding
  • Ellen McElduff as Wanda June
  • J.C. Quinn as Duncan Keller
  • Holter Graham as Deke Keller
  • Christopher Murney as Camp Loman
  • Frankie Faison as Handy - 7th Patron
  • Pat Miller as Joe Barton
  • Jack Canon as Max - 3rd Patron
  • Barry Bell as Steve Gayton
  • John Brasington as Frank - 4th Patron
  • J. Don Ferguson as Andy - 6th Patron
  • Leon Rippy as Brad - 1st Patron
  • Robert Gooden as Barry MacCrayer - 2nd Patron
  • R. Pickett Bugg as Rolf - 5th Patron
  • Giancarlo Esposito as Jerome Moore / Videoplayer - ill-fated patron
  • Martin Tucker as John / 2nd Man
  • Marla Maples as 2nd Woman
  • Ned Austin as Bridgemaster
  • Richard Chapaman Jr. as Helper
  • Bob Gunter as Coach
  • Bill Huggins as Umpire
  • Stephen King as Man at Cashpoint
  • Tabitha King as Woman at Cashpoint (scenes deleted)
  • Jock Brandis as Driver of Orange Dump Truck
  • Evan A. Lottman as Driver of Gray Van
  • Rick Avery as Bridge Jumper - unfortunate jumper who leaps from the drawbridge and onto a passing barge beneath and kills himself (scenes deleted)
  • Barry Nolan as Newscaster Voice
  • Hal Fishman as Announcer - a news reporter shown on a dead man's SONY watchman TV
  • Phil Adams as Man Killed by Chainsaw (deleted scene shows him clutching his bleeding neck, then dies)
  • Tommy J. Huff as Shitfaced Homeowner (scenes deleted)
  • Gary McLarty as Dead Man on Porch Swing
  • Christine Ann Baur as Dead Woman in Bedroom Window (deleted scene shows her strangled by a floating hairdryer)
  • Glenn Randall Jr. as Dead Ice Cream Man (scenes deleted)
  • Bernie Pock as Man The Face Stealer - a prowler in the drainage ditch (scenes deleted)
  • Denver Mattson as  Camp Loman - 'Faceless' (scenes deleted)
  • Richard Fire as Tom - a businessman who owns the Cherokee Twin Bonanza airplane that Deke later encounters (scenes deleted)
  • Peter Linari as Airport Mechanic - a town local who works at the Wilmington Airport (scenes deleted)
  • Denver Mattson as Dead Schoolbus Driver (scenes deleted)
  • Christopher Britton as Drive-thru Teller Machine Voice
  • Connie Smith as Dead Woman in Car

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