Product: The Dead Zone [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 5.0
Good job on this film!
I started out with the TV series, which I enjoyed. That led me to buy the book, which I liked better. (For me, the book is the reference here.) I did appreciate that the TV series presented many of the key episodes of the book. When I saw the movie advertised by Amazon, I picked it up immediately.I enjoyed this movie. It presented enough of the book's content to keep me happy. I realize that a movie which presents the entire book will be much too long, and it's impossible to translate media anyway without doing violence to SOMEONE's reading of the original -- "Traduttore, traditore." The screenplay also gave me a different, interesting perspective on the story.I like their moral quandry "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?", and then the miraculous saving event (didn't that happen to some saint or other?). I also thought it was neat that the "teenage boy with the camera" (actor Ramon Estevez) is, I believe, Martin Sheehan's grandson.