35 Years Later, ’The Dead Zone’s Political Parable Is More Powerful Than Ever

In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film The Dead Zone, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) represents the lengths good people in the modern world must go to in order to be heard above the fray of the powerful and influential. After saying good night his girlfriend Sarah (Brooke Adams) one evening (Johnny is all about waiting until marriage), he gets in a car accident that puts him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes up, he’s bedridden and Sarah is now married with a small child. As Johnny begins …

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