Frank Darabont gets his teeth into one of Stephen King's favorite themes — how quickly panic corrodes the veneer of civilization — with this downbeat adaptation of King's novella.
Before the mist rolled in, commercial artist David Drayton's (Thomas Jane) most pressing problem was maintaining an uneasy truce with the obnoxious, high-powered New York lawyer, Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), who weekends at the house next door to the picturesque lakeside house Drayton shares with his wife and 9-year-old son, Billy (Nathan Gamble). After the mist, which drifts in on the heels of a freak electrical storm that sends a tree crashing through the wall of Davi...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
127 mins