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The Tommyknockers DVD

R (Restricted) :: Lions Gate :: Released: 1998-09-09

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The Tommyknockers Summary The Small Town Of Haven Becomes A Hot-bed Of Inventions All Run By A Strange Green Power Device. The Whole Town Is Digging Something Up In The Woods, And Only An Alcoholic Poet Can Unfathom The Secret Of The Tommyknockers. Includes Interactive Menus, Scene Access, And Trailer.
genre: horror
rating: r
release Date: 30-jun-2000
media Type: dvd

The Tommyknockers is a TV miniseries based on Stephen King's 1987 novel. An alien spacecraft has been buried beneath the Burning Woods near the small rural New England community of Haven for millions of years, but has now by chance been unearthed by Bobbi (Marg Helgenberger) while digging around in the woods behind her house. The structure in the woods begins to exert a glowing-green influence on the town, causing the people to invent Rube Goldberg-like gizmos, develop the gift of telepathy, lose their teeth, and form a hive-mind mentality bent on digging up the ship and revivifying the desiccated aliens within. Luckily, Bobbi's significant other is an alcoholic poet (Jimmy Smits) who needs to learn to face his fears. He also has a metal plate in his head that prevents the hive-minders from reading his thoughts and makes him immune to the neon-green influence of the aliens. Ultimately, it's up to him to save the day. Although the acting is topnotch, especially from Smits and Helgenberger, and there are plenty of gooseflesh moments, there are also enough plot holes here to fuel a very long and enjoyable evening's conversation. Why do the aliens start in at this time, when they've been causing legends in the woods for ages? Where does an alien ship buried for ages get all that dry ice? How does the Smits character make a living as a poet? One suspects that King's fine sense of New England characterizations is given short shrift here, and that the woods in his mind teem with more alien thoughts than the TV miniseries form could embody. Welcome appearances by congenial actors abound, notably Joanna Cassidy, E.G. Marshall and Robert Carradine. And there's a slutty postal letter-carrier played authentically by Traci Lords. --Jim Gay

Tommyknockers DVD Techincal Details Cast: Jimmy Smits, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley, Robert Carradine
Director: John Power
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 181 mins
UPC: 031398684237
Binding: DVD
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 1998-09-09
Region Code: 0
Specs: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround),