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Stephen King Cast

Episode Fifty Five-The Langoliers Movie

Stephen King Cast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Books, Arts, Arts:books

4.7665 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In 1995, ABC decided to make a two part adaptation of Stephen King's The Langoliers. Is it as bad as you remember? The answer is no.  It's worse.

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0:00.0

Someone's in the kitchen with Dynum.

0:03.0

Someone's in the kitchen I know, ho, ho, ho, ho, some one's in the kitchen with dina.

0:09.0

Strumming on the old banjo and singing feet.

0:13.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:19.0

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication,

0:24.6

and this week I'm continuing my examination of the novella collection four past midnight

0:29.2

with the follow-up to the review of the story The Langalears.

0:32.9

This week I'm examining the two-part ABC TV miniseries from 1995 starring David Morris, Dean Stockwell,

0:40.5

and Bronson Pinchot.

0:42.8

Now, look, I am clearly a fan of Stephen King.

0:46.7

I host a weekly podcast, and in many of those weeks, I'll release multiple episodes.

0:51.2

I'm enough of a fan to commit myself to these reviews and recording, so at the end of the day,

0:55.1

yes, I'm a fan.

0:56.9

But being a fan does not mean that you have to like everything that comes out by a particular

1:01.6

artist.

1:02.7

In fact, I'd argue that if you blindly love something without weighing it against other entries

1:07.3

in an artist's collection, you aren't a fan at all.

1:10.7

The reason I say this is because I did not, I did not want to review this miniseries.

1:17.7

At all.

1:19.9

The novella was fun.

1:21.6

I liked the novella, even if the internal logic and character motivation somewhat felt

1:25.5

forced.

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