Christine (1983 film) choke on a hamburger. Christine locks the doors and Arnie cannot get in to help Leigh, but Leigh manages to pull the lock open and is saved when a man in the car next to them administers the Heimlich maneuver. Sure that Christine is jealous of her, she vows never to get into the car again and urges Arnie to get rid of it. She and Arnie break up when he refuses to even consider this. Angry with Arnie over being expelled after a confrontation in shop class, school bully Buddy Repperton vandalizes Christine with the help of his gang.
Christine (novel) Christine (novel) Christine is a horror novel written by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a 1958 Plymouth Fury apparently possessed by supernatural forces. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released in the same year; this adaptation starred Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. In April 2013, PS Publishing released "Christine" in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition. In the summer of 1978, while high school student Dennis Guilder is riding home from work with his friend, nerdy teen Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham, Arnie spots a dilapidated red and white 1958 Plymouth