Stephen King's It
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Actor: Annette O'Toole, Dennis Christopher, Harry Anderson, Richard Thomas, Tim ReidDirector: Tommy Lee Wallace
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Tommy Lee Wallace
Producer: Allen S. Epstein
Producer: Jim Green
Producer: Mark Bacino
Producer: Matthew O'Connor
Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen
Writer: Stephen King
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 192 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Stephen King's It
Movie Review: Needs a proper release.
Summary: 2 Stars
Where the book IT was brutal and unflinching the made-for-TV movie is soft and hokey. In the age of remakes I often wonder why this amazing story hasn't seen a proper release.
I really didn't have a problem with the children in this adaptation, even though a lot of the stories and gore were omitted, the language was also made squeaky clean but what do you expect, it's made-for-TV. I absolutely hated the adults in this, I don't know if I would feel the same way had I seen it when it first aired... but it is very dated. The acting is atrocious for both the kids and adults, but I can forgive the kids. If you thought the bizarre ending of the book didn't fit, well it fits even worse here. Overall most of the story is lost, mostly everything that makes the book such a great read is not present here. My suggestion is skip this and just read the book again.
My other suggestion is for someone to get on making IT into a proper film. Two or three movies, around two and a half hours each, c'mon and do it King.
Summary of Stephen King's It
Based on the King Of Horror's 1986 Best Seller, "It" is a jittery, jolting excursion into personal fear. "It" raises goosebumps-and brings out the stars. Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid, John Ritter, Tim Curry and Richard Thomas star in this thriller about a malevolent force in a small New England town.Is there anything scarier than clowns? Of course not. And who knows scary better than Stephen King? You see where we're going. It puts a malevolent clown (given demented life by a powdered, red-nosed Tim Curry) front and center, as King's fat novel gets the TV-movie treatment. Even at three hours plus, the action is condensed, but an engaging Stand by Me vibe prevails for much of the running time. The seven main characters, as adolescents, conquered a force of pure evil in their Maine hometown. Now, the cackling Pennywise is back, and they must come home to fight him--or, should we say, It--again. Admitting the TV-movie trappings and sometimes hysterical performances, this is a genuinely gripping thriller. As so often with King, the basic idea (the bond formed during a childhood trauma) is clean and powerful, a lifeline anchored in reality that leads us to the supernatural. --Robert Horton
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