A road-crash victim awakens from a five-year coma to discover he has developed psychic powers. Able to foresee a person's future just by touching them, the accidental psychic has visions of horrific destruction when he shakes the hand of a corrupt politician. David Cronenberg's thriller, based on the story by Stephen King, with Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen and Anthony Zerbe.

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.