![]() ![]() The director is little helped by Barrymore, whose E.T.-era button-cuteness ill-serves this particular project. Lester capably delivers the sight of stuntmen wandering around on fire but allows the film to sag badly once Charlie and Andy are captured and taken to the Shop's headquarters, a mansion whose tony nature is as inexplicable as Scott playing a Native American. Lester, who had brought the world the 1979 disco film Roller Boogie and would go on to direct 1985's Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring Commando. ![]() ![]() De Laurentiis' company also produced Firestarter, which was originally to be directed by John Carpenter, before a slashing of the budget caused the Halloween filmmaker to depart the project and set his sights on adapting another King novel, Christine. ![]()
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