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 ...
