Carrie (TV Film)
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Actor: Angela Bettis, Emilie de Ravin, Kandyse McClure, Patricia Clarkson, Rena SoferDirector: David Carson
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: David Carson
Producer: Ben Brafman
Producer: Bryan Fuller
Writer: Bryan Fuller
Producer: David Livingston
Producer: John Watson
Writer: Stephen King
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Carrie (TV Film)
Movie Review: I like this version!
Summary: 4 Stars
Y'know, I've seen both versions of "Carrie" & both have their merits. I somehow prefer this version better. Angela Bettis as Carrie White is an odd blend of Mousiness, Beauty, Innocence & Freakiness with a heaping bit of trepedation. She is truly an outcast & is also prone to weird, nightmarish, telekinetic seizures. Although the ending seems trite to some, I actually prefer it. I was a bit of a pariah in school, myself, with very few friends & I always sat alone at lunch. Carrie had it worse; NO friends & a really crappy home life. I like the more modernized, somewhat edgy feel, the fact that it was truer to the book (which I've never read but nonetheless heard about), the "good" people survive (mostly, except for Tommy). I like the less tragic ending because I wanted to see Carrie given another chance at redemption & renewal. The old '76 film was effective but a complete downer. As far as Margaret was concerned, I prefer the old Piper Laurie version but Lara Clarkson's take is effective in that she could look so nice, quiet & longsuffering, normal even, then suddenly...."SLAP!" (hitting Carrie) or "DUNK!" (drowning Carrie), etc. , thus you are more on edge with Clarkson's version (because she's so unpredictable, unlike the loopy Piper Laurie verson). Anyway, I basically give it four stars because of the differences I like but one star's off cause it's not perfect. But hey, it's a TV Movie!
Summary of Carrie (TV Film)
Everyone has a breaking point. Pray that Carrie White doesn't reach hers. Angela Bettis (Girl, Interrupted) stars in this bone-chilling update of Stephen King's legendary tale of horror and retribution, featuring eye-popping special effects and a shocking, all-new twist ending! Carrie White (Bettis) is a lonely, awkward teenage girl who just doesn't fit in. At school, she endures her classmates' constant ridicule, and at home she suffers endless psychological torture at the hands of her fanatically religious mother (Patricia Clarkson, "Six Feet Under"). But Carrie has a secret. She's been cursed with the terrifying power of telekinesis. And when her tormentors commit an act of unforgivably cruel humiliation at the prom, they'll soon learn a deadly lesson: If you mess with fire, you will get burned!Nobody would argue with the thought that Sissy Spacek is the perfect heroine of Stephen King's scary tale of teenage telekinesis. But in a pinch, Angela Bettis, the star of this 2002 TV remake, fills Spacek's bloody shoes very well. Bettis--who expertly plays a similar role in the indie horror pic May--gets all the loner pathos of poor Carrie White, equally tormented by her cool classmates and her religious-fanatic mom (Patricia Clarkson). Her transformation from doormat to vengeful prom queen remains surefire wish fulfillment for anyone who ever felt a misfit in high school. Despite Bettis's intensity, it's difficult to justify remaking Carrie when Brian De Palma's 1976 version is enshrined as a classic of its kind (especially given the pedestrian TV-movie production values on display here). This one delivers its jolts, but when you could just as easily spend time with Spacek and De Palma, why bother? --Robert Horton
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