Sometimes They Come Back

1991 · 98 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 12,662 VOTES · DIR. Tom McLoughlin

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Overview

Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.

Dialogue Timeline — 844 lines

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00:01:36 The mind holds onto painful memories for a reason...
00:04:08 - What do you think, on or off? - Off.
00:07:10 Hey!
00:10:08 Sounds great.
00:14:48 How much is three times two, times two?
00:19:00 Mueller!
00:23:10 I was listening to that "Dust in the Wind" song last night.
00:27:31 One thing you have to know, in my class, no cigarettes.
00:31:06 This place scares me.
00:36:25 Oh, no. No, that's really fine. I just live above the cleaners over there.
00:40:03 - Do I have anything to say about anything? - Oh, yeah.
00:44:23 I counsel faculty as well as students.
00:48:50 DO you?
00:52:12 Like just happening to be on hand when Billy Stearns was killed.
00:55:53 Chip?
01:00:03 You know, I have been saving something for you and I wanted you to have it.
01:03:03 Ever since his accident, he thinks he sees dead people.
01:06:22 - Unless we find him first. - So you better get going, Daddy-O.
01:13:32 Come on, let's go.
01:19:07 What do you know? It's Mueller time.
01:23:23 - Scott? - Dad's here!
01:26:39 I told you, 12 cents.
01:30:51 Jimmy?
01:34:35 My big brother gave them to me.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed844
Dialogue density8.6 lines / min
First line00:01:36
Final line01:34:35

Production Record

DirectorTom McLoughlin
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes12,662