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Maximum Overdrive
The movie centers on a group of survivors who are held captive at the Dixie Boy Diner by a group of bad-tempered semis; they have to try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
















10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA

21 April 1966, Toronto, Ontario, Canada





20 July 1943, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA


27 October 1963, Dalton, Georgia, USA

26 April 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark

3 July 1964, Paris, France

30 November 1940, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA



19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA

30 October 1949, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

22 June 1951, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

11 February 1972, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

29 April 1925, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA

29 April 1958, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA



7 March 1964, Canada

12 May 1962, New York City, New York, USA

21 November 1933, Savannah, Georgia, USA



July 25, 2002
When Novelists Direct!
June 18, 2003
Maximum Crap. It sorta revived AC/DC, if that matters.
July 29, 2002
" 'Maximum Tedium' -- the year
March 19, 2003
Most of the characters are so annoying that you want them to die ... a recipe' for a railroad-spike lobotomy migraine
March 14, 2009
Truck stop attacked by mechanical objects, including trucks, gone awry! Based on Stephen King story.
March 01, 2004
This is why other people usually direct King's writing.
February 10, 2003
A suitably schlocky Stephen King story.
May 15, 2012
Stephen King has admitted himself that he was coked out of his mind during the making of this. Well... duh!