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Heartbreaking story, based on Stephen King's first full-length published novel, also the breakthrough film for director Brian DePalma. Sissy Spacek makes a lasting impact as Carrie White, an awkward and ostracized teenager whose classmates can't stand her merely because she's shy and "different". She is finally pushed over the edge at the climactic school prom, unleashing her telekinetic abilities in revenge.One of the best Stephen King adaptations ever, certainly one of the saddest, most poignant, and bitter movies I've ever seen. I feel sympathy for Carrie White that I don't feel for a lot of movie characters. Overall, this story is enough to shock, appall, and move me, despite occasional goofy comic touches like the tuxedo shopping scene and the gym detention music. Spacek is both beautiful and wonderful, but it's not just her that shines - there's John Travolta, in his first major movie role, Amy Irving, P.J. Soles who would be in "Halloween" two years later, Betty Buckley, and a sexy Nancy Allen who would go on to become director Brian De Palma's wife (for a bit) as well as work for him a few more times.Overall, it COULD have been more on the routine side but Spacek and composer Pino Donaggio's music really do help to make it stick in the memory. Of course, those 1970's styles and fashions just seem highly amusing to me now.This marked the first time that Irving would work with her mother, actress Priscilla Pointer, and they've worked together numerous times since, with Pointer often playing the mother of Irving's character."Carrie" was followed by a 23-years belated sequel (or follow-up) in 1999 and the more recent (and seemingly pointless) television remake in 2002.10/10
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