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The Langoliers

Year:

1995

Duration:

180 min | 60 min (3 episodes)

Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.1

Director:

Tom Holland

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1995-05-14

Filming Locations: Bangor International Airport - 287 Godfrey Boulevard, Bangor, Maine, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Dean Stockwell

The Langoliers

Patricia Wettig

Laurel Stevenson

David Morse

Brian Engle

Mark Lindsay Chapman

Nick Hopewell

Frankie Faison

Don Gaffney

Baxter Harris

Rudy Warwick

Christopher Collet

Albert Kaussner

Kimber Riddle

Bethany Simms

Kate Maberly

Dinah Bellman

Bronson Pinchot

Craig Toomy

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Trivia

When Dean Stockwell's character says that it is not possible to travel through time, he mentions stopping the Kennedy assassination. In Quantum Leap (1989), Dean Stockwell's character helped Sam (Scott Bakula) try to stop the Kennedy assassination through time travel.

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In the novella, there is no wind, not even a light breeze when they are in Bangor. Since this was virtually impossible to execute for the movie they simply created dialogue to explain that even with a wind down here the clouds are not moving.

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The aircraft used in the movie is a Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar (N31018) belonging to the now defunct Trans World Airlines.

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Goofs

During his landing at LAX, the pilot repeatedly veers the aircraft using the yoke. However, aircraft are not controlled on the ground using the yoke, but by the small hand tiller he is seen using while taxiing at Bangor.

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When landing in Bangor, Bethany is (not) wearing her vest.

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In cruise flight, the camera zooms in on main panel. The indicated airspeed reads zero.

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Quotes

Nick Hopewell: Shut up!

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Dinah Catherine Bellman: Would somebody speak to me, please? I'm sorry but my aunt's gone and I'm blind.

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Dinah Catherine Bellman: [Toomey walks past her] There's something strange in that man's head!

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Faq

Is "The Langoliers" based on a book?

The Langoliers is one of four novellas published in Four Past Midnight (1990) by American horror novelist Stephen King.

A Note Regarding Spoilers

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags are used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

Was it necessary for someone to die in order to get back through the rip?

After seeing the movie, some viewers have suggested that. to cross the rip and get back to the Present, all they had to do was to put the plane on an autopilot course through the rip, lower the oxygen levels so people could sleep, and set a timer so that Captain Engle [David Morse] could wake up. Then he could reset the oxygen levels and wake up Nick [Mark Lindsay Chapman] and the other passengers. Other than the pat answer that that's the way Stephen King wrote the story, this plan would probably not have worked because, with the oxygen levels as low as they were, an alarm would not have awakened the captain. He would not have been able to bring himself back to a conscious state in order to reset the oxygen levels.

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