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 (1983 film) engaging and well acted, creating a believable high-school atmosphere. Unfortunately, the later part of the film is slow in developing, and it unfolds in predictable ways." "Time Out" said of the film: "Carpenter and novelist Stephen King share not merely a taste for genre horror but a love of '50's teenage culture; and although set in the present, "Christine" reflects the second taste far more effectively than the first." The film was released on VHS by Columbia Pictures, and later in a special edition DVD in 2004. On March 12, 2013, Twilight Time video released the film on Blu-ray for