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Twilight Zone: The Movie

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Horror, SciFi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:June 24, 1983
Running time:101 minutes
Cast:Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan
Director:Joe Dante, John Landis
Producer:Frank Marshall
Writer:Rod Serling, John Landis
Distributor:Warner Bros. Pictures

Description: Four separate stories in one movie. First a racist businessman gets the tables turned on him when he is transported back in time to being persued by Nazis in 1940s France, becomes an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s South, and and then a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story centers around an old man who makes the wishes of residents at a retirement home come true when he transforms them into youthful versions of themselves. In the third story a young woman on the road gives a ride to a little boy and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy's imagination. And in the final story a man on a plane sees, but cannot convince anyone else that a mysterious creature is on the outside wing of the plane trying to sabotage the aircraft.

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