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6.2A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Released: 1983-08-1093 minDir: Lewis TeagueDrama, HorrorBudget: $5.0MBox office: $21.2M
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Cast
- Dee Wallace as Donna Trenton
- Danny Pintauro as Tad Trenton
- Daniel Hugh Kelly as Vic Trenton
- Christopher Stone as Steve Kemp
- Ed Lauter as Joe Camber
- Kaiulani Lee as Charity Camber
Themes
- based on novel or book
- animal attack
- cadillac
- dam
- corpse
- dog
- rabies
- rabid dog
- rabbit hole
- trapped in car
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Lewis Teague
- Screenplay by
- Don Carlos Dunaway Barbara Turner
- Based on
- Cujo , by Stephen King
- Produced by
- Robert Singer Daniel H. Blatt
- Starring
- Dee Wallace Daniel Hugh-Kelly Danny Pintauro Ed Lauter Christopher Stone
- Cinematography
- Jan de Bont
- Edited by
- Neil Travis
- Music by
- Charles Bernstein
- Production companies
- Taft Entertainment Company Sunn Classic Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- August 12, 1983 ( 1983-08-12 )
- Running time
- 93 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $6 million
- Box office
- $21.2 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Cujo
- Director
- Lewis Teague
- Screenwriter
- Stephen King
- Composer
- Charles Bernstein
- Production company
- Taft Broadcasting
- Cinematographer
- Jan de Bont
- Narrative location
- Maine
- Filming location
- Santa Rosa
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 702354
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1983-08-19
- film editor
- Neil Travis
- title
- Cujo
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- Stephen King
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 57/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Cujo is a 1983 American horror film directed by Lewis Teague, written by Don Carlos Dunaway and Barbara Turner (using the pen name Lauren Currier), and starring Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Danny Pintauro. An adaptation of Stephen King's 1981 novel of the same name, it follows a mother and her son who are trapped inside their car while protecting themselves from a rabid St. Bernard.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cujo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.