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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767827713
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767827716
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 1999
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 43825
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 1983
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
She can't (and won't) drive 55.... Stephen King's novel about the twisted love affair between a boy and his car gets transferred to the screen, courtesy of suspense master John Carpenter. Although lacking some of the more outré supernatural elements of the source material, this high-octane cinematic tune-up more than delivers the goods, horror-wise (Christine's midnight rampages will never be forgotten)--as well as being a sly exposé of the random cruelties within the high-school pecking order. Keith Gordon (who has gone on to become a stellar director in his own right, with films such as A Midnight Clear and Mother Night to his credit) gives a wonderfully controlled central performance. Carpenter's atmospheric original score is backed up by a well-chosen collection of rock classics, including George Thorogood's 'Bad to the Bone' (the titular character's all-too-apt theme song). --Andrew Wright
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - the return of Christine
I was re-reading the paperback, (with its excessive use of scotch tape) and decided to come and seek out the movie. The book was of course, phenomenal, and what made me laugh was the part where Darnell asks, "Where the hell do you buy HALF a grill?" because when they mentioned it, I wondered the same thing.
I kinda missed that in the movie. i would have loved to feel the anxiety of the car nuts KNOWING you can't buy half a grill.
I liked Darnell's and LeBay's characters ... Read More
Rating: - "Okay...show me."
Keith Gordon gives a truly creepy performance as Arnie Cunningham, a geeky, intelligent, 17-yr-old outcast who is bullied constantly, seems to have no luck whatsoever with the ladies, or with anything else, really. He has only one friend in the world, Dennis Gilder, a popular, good-looking football player, played far less convincingly by John Stockwell.
Arnie falls in love with an incredibly dilapidated '58 Plymouth Fury. His feelings for the car are beyond those of which he has ... Read More
Rating:  - Classic
This movie is a classic! A hit at the theaters and a classic today!
Rating: - Its not your mothers car...
Great movie (get the DVD), VHS is dead...
Christine is in a class all by herself, jealous of anyone who gets too threatening or "close" to her new found owner Arnie. She will go to
any extend to get rid of them.
This strays pretty far from the novel (as all King to Movies do), but
still an interesting movie, and a must for all who are into the "Possessed Car" movies (maximum overdrive, Herbie the love bug, The Car, etc).
Rating:  - John Carpenters first dud...
The reason I love John Carpenter is his movies are entertaining. They may be scary, creepy, atmospheric, funny, whatever but generally entertaining.
Today I just finished watching Christine for the second time and for the first time in many many years. Boring. Not scary, not creepy, not atmospheric, not funny. Not anything but boring. Boring.
I suppose if I believed in supernatural cars this might do something for me. But I don't and it doesn't. In my opinion if ... Read More
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