A young man who has flirted with death is forced to come to terms with mortality in this tale of terror based on a story by Stephen King. Alan Parker is a college student studying art at the University of Maine in 1969. He constantly obsesses over the worst outcome of any situation, and when he begins to suspect his girlfriend, Jessica, is thinking of leaving him, it drives him to the brink of suicide. Shortly after this brush with death, he receives word that his mother, Jean, has suffered a severe stroke and may not pull through. He decides to hitchhike to reach the hospital before his only relative dies. On his way there, he has multiple strange encounters with the living and dead.
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Credits
Director
Mick Garris
Cast
Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Hershey, Erika Christensen
Writer
Mick Garris
Distributor
Lionsgate Films, Universal Television, MPCA
Award
Saturn Award Nominee for Jonathan Jackson, Best Performance by a Younger Actor, 2005
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