Christine (1983 film) Christine (1983 film) Christine is a 1983 American psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky and Harry Dean Stanton. The film also features supporting performances from Roberts Blossom and Kelly Preston. Written by Bill Phillips and based on Stephen King’s 1983 novel of the same name, the movie follows the changes in the lives of Arnie Cunningham, his friends, his family, and his teenage enemies after Arnie buys a vintage 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. Strange things happen and the viewers learn the car's secret: That it is possessed by
Christine Orr in the Edinburgh New Town. Orr then founded the Christine Orr Players, one of eight theatre companies to perform an unofficial event during the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, "planting the roots of what would come to be known as the Festival Fringe". The group put on a production of "Macbeth", starring Robin Stark, and for which Orr also designed the costumes. The production was called "a great achievement" by the theatre paper "The Stage". She also founded The Makars in 1932, which remained "one of Edinburgh's leading amateur groups" for at least two decades. Christine Orr Christine Grant