Christine
How do you kill something that can't possibly be alive?
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory.As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty.Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $21M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
22 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Christine returned 2.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $10M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $21M
- Release date
- Dec 9, 1983
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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