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Wikipedia article
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| writer = Brian Taggert
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'Trucks' is a 1997 television horror film directed by Chris Thomson. It is based on Stephen King's short story "Trucks", which also served as the source material for the earlier film 'Maximum Overdrive', the only film directed by King. It aired on the USA Network on October 29, 1997.
Plot
In a small Nevada town, the town residents live peacefully. But one day, most trucks mysteriously start to come to life and develop their own minds.
Ray along with his son arrive in Nevada, where they decide to stay in a restaurant. As the trucks start to develop their own minds, a trucker loses control of his refrigerator truck and decides to get out of it to see why the truck stopped. When he decides to check the trailer, he is locked inside by the truck.
Ray meets a Hippie named Jack and a woman named Hope and a man with his daughter. They see an old truck and decide to move it out of the way when the refrigerator truck comes and tries to kill them, but they escape.
The group hides in a restaurant where more trucks come and circle around.
A postal worker drops off some mail at a toy store, however, an RC Tonka dump truck drives through a window and chases after the postal worker. The toy gradually kills the person by driving aggressively into him multiple times.
Two hazmat workers are sent to clean up a chemical spill caused by a chemical truck that crashes into an electric substation, but are killed by their truck. Meanwhile, the group has a plan to fuel up the trucks to calm them down. When the night comes, they decide to fuel the trucks but Ray, his son, and Hope decide to secretly escape. A cook named George tries to shoot the trucks but is killed when the refrigerator truck runs him over and collides with the restaurant, causing the truck to explode.
In that same night, an electrician was working on fixing a power line in a bucket crane truck. He was then killed by his truck when it causes him to fall out of the bucket and be electrocuted.
A few hours later Ray, his son, and Hope see a helicopter in the distance and decide to get inside when the refrigerator truck tries to kill them again but falls in a lake. The group manages to successfully get in the helicopter only to realize that there is no pilot inside.
Cast
* Timothy Busfield as Ray Porter
* Brenda Bakke as Hope Gladstone
* Brendan Fletcher as Logan Porter
* Roman Podhora as Thad Timmy
* Jay Brazeau as Jack
* Amy Stewart as Abby Timmy
* Victor Cowie as George "Georgie"
* Aidan Devine as Trucker Bob
* Sharon Bajer as June Yeager
* Jonathan Barrett as Brad Yeager
* Rick Skene as Trucker Pete
* Don Granberry as Sheriff
* Kirk Harper as Lino
* Harry Nelken as Phil
Trucks used in the film
* Western Star 4964
* Grumman-Olson Kurbmaster
* Ford F-Series
* Chevrolet Task-Force Apache
* GMC New Design
* Ford Econoline
* Ford F-Series
* GMC C6500
Production
Principal photography concluded on August 22, 1997. Shooting took place in Gunton and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Reception
'TV Guide' rated 'Trucks' 2/4 stars and wrote, "The film is all premise and no plot, a problem made worse by the clumsy addition of extraneous gory sequences."
References
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