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Release Date: 13 January, 2004 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $13.46 You SAVE: $1.49! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Carrie (TV Film) Reviews
A Wasted Opportunity...
Sadly, this TV remake does little to improve upon Brian DePalma's original screen treatment. While it DOES include more of King's novel in the adaptation, way-too-many things still lack or are just plain wrong. For lover's of King's original, my first thought was "Why did they get a Spacek clone?"- star Angela Bettis is thin and attractive, which was NOT the "Carrie" of the novel(fat, frumpy and virtually invisible in her plainess). Patricia Clarkson's take on Margaret White was so underplayed, that memories of Piper Laurie's hystrionics in the film were sorely missed. The "tagged-on" ending defeated the purpose of the whole tragedy of Carrie White(why? So a television series could possibly follow?). But the biggest crime is the new commercial DVD/VHS release- the 180 miniseries has been pared down to 212 minutes, so viewers of this home video release will NOT see what was originally presented. Let's hope that the new mini-series remake of King's BEST novel SALEM'S LOT (with Rob Lowe, Donald Sutherland and Rutger Hauer)will not suffer the same fate...
CARRIE FOR THIS GENERATION!!!!
THIS WAS A GREAT ADAPTION OF STEPHEN KING'S NOVEL, CARRIE.
NEW STAR, ANGELA BETTIS, IS FANTASTIC IN THE LEADING ROLE!!
SHE BRINGS HER OWN UNIQUE STYLE TO THIS ROLE.
AS WELL AS A SIMILAR PLOT TO THE ORIGINAL, THIS FILM BRINGS US MORE DESTRUCTION EFFECTS IN "THE PROM" SCENE.
HOWEVER, IF YOU LIKE THE ORIGINAL FILM, SEE THIS VERSION, BECAUSE ANGELA BETTIS TAKES THIS ROLE TO THE EXTREME!!
GREAT MOVIE!!!!
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