Revealing mistake: The outline of the blood pack is visible under John's shirt when Stillson's body guard shoots him. (01:37:35)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Plot summary
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Starring: Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Herbert Lom, Tom Skerritt, Brooke Adams
Johnny Smith was just a regular young teacher in love. His girlfriend gets sick while he's on a date with her and he takes her home early. He offers to stay with her,but she declines. On his way back,Johnny gets in a wreck and is in a 4 year coma. When he awakens,he now has the power to see the future. He also has the ability to see a certain event in the past if he is at the location that it happened. He finds out a local politician running for president would be a disaster if elected and Johnny must stop it somehow.
Kevin Trice
More mistakes in The Dead Zone
Sarah Bracknell: You're looking good.
Johnny Smith: Yeah, it's called the coma diet - lose weight while ya sleep.
Trivia: The last assignment Christopher Walken gives his students before his accident is to read about the headless demon in the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Years later he played the Headless Horseman in the movie "Sleepy Hollow."