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The Stand

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The Stand
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6hrs 0min
Genres:
Drama,Sci-Fi
Release:
1994
Director:
Mick Garris
Distributor:
Live/Artisan
Starring:
Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan  ...more
Synopsis: Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping like flies from the plague, but a few survive and ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong
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Like many TV miniseries based on Stephen King's writing, The Stand gets increasingly ridiculous as it works into the later installments -- in part because the author's most unfilmable ideas usually appear near the end of his epic works (see the It miniseries for a particularly egregious example). However, the first chunk of this one is both spooky and tense, as over 99 percent of the world's population ... Full Review
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Gary Sinise
Stu Redman
Molly Ringwald
Frannie Goldsmith
Jamey Sheridan
Randall Flagg
Laura San Giacomo
Nadine Cross
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