The Dead Zone

Teens read a lot of bad books (often referred to as "Sven H.ssel/Danielle 
Steele Syndrome").  My weakness was for Stephen King, and it's amazing how many of his books have been filmed.  Film-makers seem intent on adapting his entire output including the contents of his hankie (filmed as "The Lawnmower Man".)    
                                                                                
"The Dead Zone" is a non-horror effort in which Christopher Walken is  in a car accident and wakes after years in a coma with psychic powers.  Treated as a freak he attempts to hide away, but fate in the guise of  a serial killer and a power-mad politician are inescapable... 
                                                                           
Directed by David Cronenberg with his penchant for stories about illness, this is a successful marriage of styles.  It's reminiscent of "The Sixth Sense" in that it's a quietly sad film about fate and loss, so if you liked that I think you'll like this.  7/10.
                        
p.s.  These are the King adaptations I can recall (I'm sure there are more).  Mostly awful, but there are some "diamonds in the diarrhoea":
                                                                           
Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, The Shining (twice), Firestarter, Cujo, 
Children of the Corn, The Lawnmower Man, Maximum Overdrive, Apt Pupil, Christine, Pet Semetary, Storm of the Century, Silver Bullet, Sleepwalkers, The Running Man, Hearts in Atlantis, Needful Things, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Stand, It, Misery, Golden Years, Cat's Eye, The Green Mile, Sometimes They Come Back, Creepshow, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half and Dolores Claiborne. 

Special mentions for Shawshank and Cujo which stand at either end of the "no WAY the same guy wrote these stories!" spectrum