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The Mist

Year:
Duration:
126 min
Genres:
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.2
Director:
Frank Darabont
Awards:
5 wins & 7 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2007-11-21
Filming Locations: Minden, Louisiana, USA
Earnings
Budget: $18,000,000
Opening Weekend: $8,931,973 (USA) (24 November 2007)
Gross: $25,592,632 (USA) (16 March 2008)
Cast
Actor
Character
Thomas Jane
David Drayton
Marcia Gay Harden
Mrs. Carmody
Laurie Holden
Amanda Dunfrey
Andre Braugher
Brent Norton
Toby Jones
Ollie Weeks
William Sadler
Jim
Jeffrey DeMunn
Dan Miller
Frances Sternhagen
Irene Reppler
Nathan Gamble
Billy Drayton
Alexa Davalos
Sally
Chris Owen
Norm
Sam Witwer
Private Jessup
Robert C. Treveiler
Bud Brown
David Jensen
Myron
Melissa McBride
Woman With Kids at Home
Andy Stahl
Mike Hatlen
Buck Taylor
Ambrose Cornell
Brandon O'Dell
Bobby Eagleton
Jackson Hurst
Joe Eagleton
Brian Libby
Biker
Susan Malerstein
Hattie
Mathew Greer
Silas
Walter Fauntleroy
Donaldson
Amin Joseph
M.P.
Kelly Lintz
Steff Drayton
Ginnie Randall
Woman #1
Tiffany Morgan
Woman #2
Kim Wall
Terrified Woman
Julio Cedillo
Father
Ron Clinton Smith
Mr. Mackey
Gregg Brazzel
Tom Smalley
Sonny Franks
Man with El Camino
Dodie Brown
Screaming Woman (as Dodie L. Brown)
Taylor E. Brown
Screaming Child
Jay Amor
Shopper #4 (uncredited)
Kristin Barnhart
Rescued Refugee (uncredited)
Kevin Beard
Shopper #2 (uncredited)
Derek Cox-Berg
Teenager #1 (uncredited)
Kip Cummings
Mrs. Carmody's Follower (uncredited)
John F. Daniel
Mrs. Carmody's Follower (uncredited)
Tammy Eaton
Shopper (uncredited)
Ron Fagan
Shopper (uncredited)
Ted Ferguson
Norton Group Member (uncredited)
Travis Fontenot
Hazmat Worker (uncredited)
Louis Herthum
Colonel
Walt Hollis
Bio Hazard Engineer
Pamela Houghton
Mrs. Carmody's Follower (uncredited)
Brian Scott Hunt
Teenage Boy #2 (uncredited)
R. Todd Jones
Military Soldier (uncredited)
Jimmy Lee Jr.
Shopper (uncredited)
Cherami Leigh
Teenage Girl (uncredited)
Mike Martindale
Sentry
Cindy McBride
Mrs. Carmody's Follower (uncredited)
Eric Kelly McFarland
Military Soldier (uncredited)
Amy McGee
Mrs. Carmody - Non believer
Ritchie Montgomery
Paisley Hat Man
Michaela Morgan
Little Girl
Darrick Mosley
Shopper (uncredited)
James Paul
Grocery Store Customer (uncredited)
Chuck Vail
Military Soldier (uncredited)
Steven E. Williams
Mash Group Member (uncredited)
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Trivia
In the opening shot of the film, David is painting in his room. The picture he's drawing is a design from Stephen King's Dark Tower series of the gunslinger Roland, a Clint Eastwood-like character living in a Middle-Earth-like world. Another design in the room is that of the poster of John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). Carpenter also wrote and directed The Fog (1980), which shares obvious themes with The Mist, as well as Christine (1983), an adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
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Frank Darabont's "controversial" ending actually comes directly from Stephen King's source material. Written in first-person, David entertains this notion in his mind as a distant possibility, noting there are three bullets and four people (Dan Miller doesn't make it to the car in the novella), but he ends his journal and leaves it in a restaurant the survivors have sought refuge in before the car runs out of gas. Darabont felt this ending was too ambiguous and wrote the story to its finite climax, and ending that Darabont says in the DVD commentary was endorsed by King as the ending King wished he would have thought of.
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The pharmacy next to the Food House store is called "King's Pharmacy", most likely a reference to author Stephen King. Coincidentally, Stephen King himself once had a cameo as a pharmacist in the film adaptation of his novel Thinner (1996).
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Goofs
When Private Jessup is being lynched, we see the wings of the collar of his shirt repeatedly switch from being tucked into his uniform and being stretched out on the outside.
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Mrs. Carmody is supposedly a devout Christian, yet refers to the book of "Revelation" as "Revelations". This mistake is quite common even among people who claim to be devout Christians. She is not an ideal model of mental health, either, allowing some leeway in this matter.
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Towards the end of the film you see a white state police car upside down, when marked Maine State police cars are blue with a round state police logo on the front doors, and the word STATE TROOPER on the front of the hood and above the front wheel well.
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Quotes
David Drayton: They're... they're dead. For what?
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Dan Miller: What are you saying? What are you proposing?
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David Drayton: Sure there's no way I can talk you out of this?
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Faq
Q
Are there any other versions of "The Mist"?
A
"The Mist" was also adapted into a radio play/drama called "The Mist in 3-D Sound", originally released on cassette tape in 1984 and later released on CD. William Sadler, who played Jim in the movie, is the voice of David Drayton. The radio play actually has a different and more ambiguous ending than the movie or the novella. After the large creature passes overhead, Irene (only known as Miss Reppler in the play) asks David to turn on the radio which he gets nothing but static. In contrast to the novella where David gets upset at himself for not thinking of trying the radio, he just says "All right" and turns it on. Irene also makes a comment about an Exit 13 where there used to be a Howard Johnson's, but they do not stop as they do in the novella where David is writing the story. The play then cuts a different scene where Amanda and David overhear someone say "Hartford" over the radio, Amanda and David confirm that that's what they heard, and the play ends with David's Scout passing by.
Q
Where did the creatures come from?
A
Although not directly stated in the movie, it is implied that the creatures entered through an inter-dimensional rift as a result of Project Arrowhead, a secret scientific project being carried out on a nearby military base. An early draft of the script written by Frank Darabont included a prologue set in the base's laboratory, providing a reasonably good idea of what the Arrowhead Project was supposed to have been and what went wrong. In the prologue, a number of civilian scientists, computer technicians, and Army personnel gather around a large object which resembles an old-fashioned diving helmet: a metal tank with thick glass windows. One of the scientists expresses some concern about running an experiment in the middle of a thunderstorm. His superior tells him to relax and orders that the device be turned on. When the machine is activated, a small point of white light (described as looking like a flashlight shining through a keyhole) appears inside the tank. Moments later, however, lightning strikes the base's electrical generator. The point of light begins to get larger and brighter. One of the scientists calls for the machine to be turned off, but a technician tells him "we can't; we're drawing [the power] right out of the sky." The scientists stand helplessly by as the portal inside the tank gets wider and wider and a white mist begins to fill the tank. Something "slithery" is then glimpsed moving inside the tank. A colonel asks the scientists how thick the glass is in the tank's windows. The scientist, sounding none too confident, tells him that it can withstand up to forty times the pressure of our own atmosphere. Apparently that isn't strong enough, because the windows of the tank begin to crack and finally shatter outwards, releasing the mist into the laboratory.
Q
What is 'The Mist' about?
A
The story is told after the fact by movie poster illustrator David Drayton (Thomas Jane). Following a violent thunderstorm in which his house loses power and trees smash through his studio window and his boathouse, he and his eight-year-old son Billy (Nathan Gamble), along with neighbor Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), head into town for supplies. While they are in the store with dozens of other shoppers also looking for supplies, a siren goes off and a strange white mist settles over the town. Soon, the shoppers learn that the mist contains dangerous, alien creatures and that they must band together to keep themselves safe...until it becomes apparent that there may be a greater danger inside the store than out.
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