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Release Date: 1986

Cast: Anthony Denison, Hal Fishman, Nancy Allen, Carrie Fisher, Holter Graham, Giancarlo Esposito, Ellen McElduff, Christopher Murney, Emilio Estevez, Yeardley Smith, J.C. Quinn, Pat Hingle ...MORE

Cast: Anthony Denison, Hal Fishman, Nancy Allen, Carrie Fisher, Holter Graham, Giancarlo Esposito, Ellen McElduff, Christopher Murney, Emilio Estevez, Yeardley Smith, J.C. Quinn, Pat Hingle, Oliver Robins, Lou Perryman, William Hope, Laura Harrington, Christopher Britton, John Short, Frankie Faison, Leon Rippy, Stephen King ...LESS

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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American action-horror-science fiction film written and directed by novelist Stephen King. The film starred Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington and Yeardley Smith. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks, which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift. Maximum Overdrive is Stephen King's only directorial effort, though dozens of films have been based on King's novels. The film contained black humor elements and a generally camp tone, which contrasts with King's sombre subject matter in... MORE

Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American action-horror-science fiction film written and directed by novelist Stephen King. The film starred Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington and Yeardley Smith. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks, which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift. Maximum Overdrive is Stephen King's only directorial effort, though dozens of films have been based on King's novels. The film contained black humor elements and a generally camp tone, which contrasts with King's sombre subject matter in books. The film was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Director for Stephen King and Worst Actor for Emilio Estevez in 1987, but both lost against Prince for Under the Cherry Moon. King himself described the film as a "moron movie" and stated his intention to never direct again soon after. In a 2002 interview with Tony Magistrale for the book Hollywood's Stephen King, King stated that he was "coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn't know what [he] was doing." In spite of this, King stated in the same interview that he "learned a lot from the LESS