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You Are Good

The Dead Zone page to screen

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.” In which Sarah and Alex discuss one of King's greatest books and one of Cronenberg's least gory movies.CW: Suicide comes up in this episode. You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can find us on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/youaregoodpod), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/youaregoodpod), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus (http://apple.co/yag).We made a playlist inspired by this episode (https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/fbb8a0d4-2dc7-47d8-9ff6-29fdfd4fcc54)!This possible was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus (http://apple.co/yag). And it was made possible by support from American Masters: Creative Spark (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/podcast/).Multitude (https://multitude.productions/) handles our ad sales!The Music of You Are Good, Vol. 1 (https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-you-are-good-vol-1) is here.You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here (https://www.carolynkendrick.com/). She's also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/carekendrick).Miranda Zickler edited this episode!Fresh Lesh (https://www.freshlesh.com/) produces the beats for our episodes.Liz Climo (https://thelittleworldofliz.com/) designed our logo!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello you and welcome to you are good feelings podcast about movies today we're talking

0:15.2

about the dead zone and as is our tradition every time we talk about a movie that has

0:19.8

been adapted from a Stephen King novel we are doing the dead zone page to screen we're

0:25.7

talking about the movie we're talking about the book.

0:28.2

I'm one of your hosts Alex steed I'll soon be joined by my marvelous co-host Sarah Marshall

0:33.4

this one's just Sarah in me because it is difficult to get someone to come out of the

0:37.0

show and expect of them reading a full Stephen King book and watching a movie and this

0:43.1

is kind of weird Sarah and I get to catch up.

0:45.5

This was a super fun one and I'm excited to share the conversation with you.

0:51.2

The dead zone movie is a 1983 American science fiction thriller film directed by David

0:57.0

Kronenberg the screenplay by Jeffrey boom is based on the 1979 novel of the same name

1:02.8

by Stephen King the film stars Christopher walk in Brooke Adams Tom scarrett martensheen

1:08.4

and others walk in plays a schoolteacher Johnny Smith who awakens from a coma to find

1:14.2

that he has psychic powers and then all sorts of things happen.

1:20.8

This more or less describes what happens in the book as well there are obviously variations

1:25.4

that are obviously things that the film had to cut out for time.

1:30.1

But it's more or less a faithful adaptation of the 1979 novel by Stephen King.

1:36.7

How are you doing out there?

1:37.7

How's everything going?

1:38.7

How's your life?

1:39.7

Tell me.

1:40.7

What are you watching?

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