Stephen King's The Langoliers

Overview

Ten passengers on a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston discover that they are not the only people on the plane, but after making an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine, they discover that they are the only people on the planet. This film was based off the Stephen King short story Four Past Midnight.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/18/2013
UPC:	0097366221941
Original Release:	1995
Rating:	NR
Source:	Spelling Entertainme
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:59:00
Sales rank:	14,779

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

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

Technical Credits

Tom Holland

Stephen King

Tom Holland	Director,Screenwriter
Stephen King	Screenwriter
David Kappes	Producer
Mitchell Galin	Executive Producer
Richard P. Rubinstein	Executive Producer
Peter Bucossi	Stunts
Thomas Barham	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

The Langoliers is a little too ambitious for some of the players involved and, perhaps, its director. With a plot that is heavy on mysteries (some of them unanswerable) and, ultimately, explanation (of sorts), one would need a first-rate cast all the way through to pull this off -- and one player, in an absolutely essential role, is the weak link here. Additionally, the mini-series' fundamental shortcoming lies in its plot, which will remind one of at least a couple of Twilight Zone episodes, but really owes a lot to the Outer Limits story The Premonition, about a pilot and his wife who, through a freak accident, find themselves trapped outside of normal time; this production bears a relationship to that TV episode, similar to that of Twelve Monkeys to Le Jetee. The Stephen King short story that was the official source, and the screenplay, pile on a lot of character development and baggage, but not enough to carry this production for three-hours of screen time. Still, there are some good, chilling moments and scenes -- director Holland does get the most out of the scale of the production and most of the actors he has at his disposal.