Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) on Netflix
Four tales: Bill Connor is flung into other people's history, Mr. Bloom's game makes the old young, Helen Foley drives a strange boy home, and John Valentine sees something on the wing.
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Plot summary
A prologue finds two men driving a country road late at night, one of them offering to show the other something really scary. Bill Connor, a bigot who has been passed over for a promotion in favor of a Jewish coworker, storms out of a bar and into occupied France, where SS officers chase him. In another story, Mr. Bloom moves into Sunnyvale Retirement Home and invites the other residents outside for a game of kick the can. Helen Foley, a schoolteacher driving to a new job, gives a boy named Anthony a ride home and meets his welcoming family. On a flight through a thunderstorm, John Valentine, gripped by a fear of flying, spots a creature on the wing.
Cast
- Rainer Peetsas German Officer (Segment #1) (as Remus Peets)
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- Sue Duganas Waitress No. 1 (Segment #1)
- Debby Porteras Waitress No. 2 (Segment #1)
- Annette Claudieras French Monther (Segment #1)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- During the filming of the “Time Out” segment on July 23, 1982, Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le, aged seven, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, aged six, died in an accident involving a Bell UH-1 helicopter. The two children had been hired in violation of California law barring child actors from working at night or near explosions.
- Producer Steven Spielberg was so disgusted by director John Landis's handling of the fatal accident that he ended their friendship and publicly called for an end to the era when directors had near-total control over productions, telling the press, "No movie is worth dying for."
- Associate producer George Folsey Jr. told the child actors' parents not to mention their children's involvement to any firefighters on set and hid the kids from a fire safety officer, who separately had concerns that the planned explosions could bring down the helicopter but never voiced them to director John Landis.
- Landis and four others were tried and acquitted on manslaughter charges in a nine-month trial across 1986 and 1987. As a result of the accident, second assistant director Andy House had his name removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonym Alan Smithee.
- The probable cause was special effects explosions detonated too near the low-flying helicopter, which damaged one rotor blade and delaminated the other and separated the tail rotor assembly; the helicopter was around 25 feet off the ground, and no direct communication had been established between the pilot and the film director.
- Co-director George Miller was so repulsed by the accident that he walked away from post-production on his own segment without any announcement, leaving fellow director Joe Dante to oversee the editing in his place.
- The fatal accident led directly to a lasting change in California filmmaking oversight, resulting in the creation of the Motion Picture & Entertainment Unit within the CAL FIRE Office of the State Fire Marshal to enforce fire safety rules on film sets.
