Stephen King's Golden Years (1991)
An elderly janitor named Harlan Williams (Keith Szarabajka) is caught up in an explosion at the laboratory where he works. After surviving but discovering he is now "aging" in reverse, he ends up on the run from government agencies.
At a bum numbing four hours, (perhaps i shouldn't have watched this all in one go), Golden Years is just too long and over padded. It takes an age for Williams to go on the run, along with wife Frances Sternhagen and Felicity Huffman, excellent here, as the firms security expert.
A finely crafted final 90 minutes almost save things as science exposition gives way to thrills but this is no Storm of the Century when it comes to King tv adaptations.
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