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Maximum Overdrive

Imagine your worst nightmare...machines take over the world!

  • Movie
  • 1986
  • R
  • 1h 38m

Directed by Stephen King

5.8

TMDB audience rating
5.8 out of 10 from 909 votes

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Overview

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

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Cast and crew

  • Emilio Estevez

    Emilio EstevezBill Robinson

  • Pat Hingle

    Pat HingleHendershot

  • Laura Harrington

    Laura HarringtonBrett

  • Yeardley Smith

    Yeardley SmithConnie

  • John Short

    John ShortCurt

  • Ellen McElduff

    Ellen McElduffWanda June

  • J.C. Quinn

    J.C. QuinnDuncan

  • Christopher Murney

    Christopher MurneyCamp Loman

  • Holter Graham

    Holter GrahamDeke

  • Frankie Faison

    Frankie FaisonHandy

  • Pat MillerJoe

  • Jack CanonMax

  • Barry BellSteve

  • John BrasingtonFrank

  • J. Don Ferguson

    J. Don FergusonAndy

  • Leon Rippy

    Leon RippyBrad

  • Robert GoodenBarry

  • R. Pickett BuggRolf

Director
Stephen King
Writer
Stephen King
Cinematography
Armando Nannuzzi