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Overview
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Writers (WGA):
Stephen King (novel)
Peter Filardi (teleplay)
Release Date:
20 June 2004 (USA) more
Tagline:
In a small town, evil spreads quickly.
Plot:
Writer Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations more
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(4 articles)
Ten/Four Lines Up Two Projects
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Will Smith has 'Unfinished Business' with Sci Fi
(From Hitfix. 19 April 2009, 9:47 PM, PDT)
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POORLY DONE more (134 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rob Lowe | ... | Ben Mears | |
| Andre Braugher | ... | Matt Burke | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | Richard Straker | |
| Samantha Mathis | ... | Susan Norton | |
| Robert Mammone | ... | Dr. James Cody | |
| Dan Byrd | ... | Mark Petrie (as Daniel Byrd) | |
| Rutger Hauer | ... | Kurt Barlow | |
| James Cromwell | ... | Father Donald Callahan | |
| Andy Anderson | ... | Charlie Rhodes | |
| Robert Grubb | ... | Larry Crockett | |
| Steven Vidler | ... | Sheriff Parkins (as Steve Vidler) | |
| Penny McNamee | ... | Ruth Crockett | |
| Brendan Cowell | ... | Dud Rogers | |
| Christopher Morris | ... | Mike Ryerson | |
| Todd MacDonald | ... | Floyd Tibbits |
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Also Known As:
Salem's Lot (USA) (alternative spelling)
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Runtime:
Argentina:181 min | USA:181 min (DVD version) | Finland:174 min (DVD)
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1.78 : 1 more
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Australia:M | Finland:K-15 | Brazil:14 | Canada:14A | USA:TV-14 | Germany:16 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15
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Approximately 300 extras were used during the production. more
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Continuity: When Richard Straker confronts Susan Norton and Mark Petrie in Straker's house for the first time, Straker takes Norton's gun with his left hand, then Petrie's stake with his right hand. The stake then disappears and reappears in Straker's hand between shots. more
Quotes:
Floyd Tibbits:
Crockett's paying us a hundred bucks to deliver this crate. If I said to you, Mike, I'd pay you two hundred bucks to come into the Marsten House, alone, at night, would you do it?
Mike Ryerson:
Hell no.
Floyd Tibbits:
Me neither. I find that humorous.
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Movie Connections:
References Stand by Me (1986) more
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Paint It Black more
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I expected this remake to be much closer to the original (much like the TV remake of The Shining much more closely followed the book than the 1980 version). In this case, both the 1979 and the 2004 versions of 'salems Lot deviated from the book to a large degree. First of all, the filming locale in either version does not even closely resemble southern Maine. In this 2004 version, it takes place in November with obviously fake snow everywhere. The book took place in September and October of 1975. They should not have had it set in 2004--the book took place in 1975, and should have stuck with the time. So many other deviations from the book bothered me.... so many that I can't even go into each individual one.