Christine

Perfect film for this romantic holiday. Proverbial nerd buys possessed car, falls in love with it and it ends up destroying him. Sounds like most relationships I've encountered. It's a silly premise when you think about it........a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury as a jealous and possessive "lover" but just like Stephen King did in his novel, John Carpenter manages to present the tale in such a way as to be "believable". Keith Gordon is cast perfectly as Arnie Cunningham, the afformentioned nerd, and is fascinating to watch as he changes from geek to greaser nut bar. Robert Prosky is great as the sailor-mouthed cantankorous scrap shop owner and actor/poet Roberts Blossom is perfect as Christine's elderly owner. We are also treated to an early performance from Kelly Preston, who I would say is the most beautiful woman in the world, but I don't want John Travolta coming over and doing a two-step on my skull! Easy to see why he married her twice. Harry Dean Stanton also is his threadbare old self in a detective role. Visually dated, this still holds up as one of Carpenter's better films.