As in Stephen King’s novella of the same name, this two-night made-for-TV movie follows the ten people who find that they’re the only ones left on board a transcontinental flight. Even after they land, nobody else is on the ground. In order of importance, the movie is about (1) the characters, (2) horror, and (3) a little speculative fiction. In the end, the resolution (involving time) is the same as in the novella.
—Michael Main
I’ve been sitting here, running all these old stories through my head, you know: time warps, space warps, alien raiding parties. I mean, we really don’t know if there’s anything left down there, do we?

Variants

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  1. The Langoliers, written and directed by Tom Holland (ABC-TV, USA, 14 May 1995).
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    Stephen King (based on a work by)
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Previous Works
based on “The Langoliers” by Stephen King (1990)