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    Langoliers, The

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    This two-part television film based on the novella by Stephen King and directed by Tom Holland presents a small group of passengers who wake up on a plane and discover that everyone else has vanished.

    They land the plane – thanks to airline pilot passenger Brian Engle (David Morse) – at a small airport in Maine but bizarre events puzzle them when they arrive.

    Matches do not light, food and drink tastes off or flat, the sun goes up and down too quickly, and sound does not echo. What on earth is going on?

    The Langoliers is rather like a long Twilight Zone episode and while the premise is stretched almost to breaking point by the length, the mystery is enjoyable and strange enough to hold one’s interest.

    It’s a bit much to swallow Dean Stockwell’s mystery writer character making these huge deductive leaps of imagination to work out what is going on but there’s a decent cast on offer here with Patricia Wettig as a school teacher and Bronson Pinchot (pictured at left) as a yuppie businessman who cracks under the strain. Pinchot’s bonkers performance gets the film through a few lulls.

    The special effects are rather poor at times but are not without their dated tv budget charms. The Langoliers is decent fun on the whole if you like strange mysteries and Stephen King stories.

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    Tom Holland
    Laurel Stevenson
    Patricia Wettig
    Dinah Bellman
    Kate Maberly
    Nick Hopewell
    Mark Lindsay Chapman
    Aunt Vicki
    Julie Arnold Lisnet
    Don Gaffney
    Frankie Faison
    Rudy Warwick
    Baxter Harris
    Richard Logan
    Michael Louden
    Albert Kaussner
    Christopher Collet
    Doris Heartman
    Kymberly Dakin
    Bethany Simms
    Kimber Riddle
    Brian Engle
    David Morse
    Danny Keene
    David Forrester
    Craig Toomy
    Bronson Pinchot
    James Deegan
    Chris Hendrie
    Gate Agent
    Jennifer Nichole Porter
    Bob Jenkins
    Dean Stockwell
    Roger Toomy
    John Griesemer
    Craig (9 Years)
    Christopher Cooke
    Tom Holby
    Stephen King

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