If you could see the future …
by digby
I had seen this old movie “The Dead Zone” before but it was on the other night and I had it on in the background. It struck me as an interesting flick for the current period:
A high school teacher and soon-to-be wife winds up in a fateful car crash that turns his life upside down. When he awakens from a five-year coma, he discovers that through physical contact he can predict a person’s ultimate fate. This power can serve to be a gift, or a curse, as Walken soon realizes when he shakes the hand of a power-hungry politician.
Martin Sheen really chews the scenery in this one as the megalomanic politician. And to think he had never seen Donald Trump or Ted Cruz at the time …
If you’ve seen the movie, this is the ending.
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