Carrie (2002 film)
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| Carrie | |
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 Poster for the 2002 remake of Carrie |
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| Directed by | David Carson |
| Produced by | Ben Brafmen David Carson |
| Written by | Bryan Fuller Stephen King (novel) |
| Starring | Angela Bettis Patricia Clarkson Kandyse McClure Rena Sofer |
| Music by | Laura Karpman |
| Cinematography | Victor Goss |
| Editing by | Anthony Lewis Jeremy Presner |
| Distributed by | Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
| Release date(s) | November 4, 2002 (USA) |
| Running time | 132 min. |
| Language | English |
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The 2002 made-for-TV remake of Carrie is a modern, updated version of the original 1976 film. It follows more closely to the original novel by Stephen King. It was originally meant to start off a new TV series that focused on Carrie moving to Florida to help others with telekinetic problems.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Angela Bettis | Carrie White |
| Kandyse McClure | Sue Snell |
| Tobias Mehler | Tommy Ross |
| Rena Sofer | Miss Desjarden |
| Patricia Clarkson | Margaret White |
| Emilie de Ravin | Chris Hargensen |
| Jesse Cadotte | Billy Nolan |
| Meghan Black | Norma Watson |
| Chelan Simmons | Helen Shyres |
[edit] Plot summary
Detective John Mulcahey (David Keith) is shown interviewing survivors and witnesses to Carrie's life and what happened the night of the prom, in an attempt to learn of a young girl gifted with telekinesis. Survivors and witnesses include: Miss Desjarden (Rena Sofer), Sue Snell (Kandyse McClure), Norma Watson (Meghan Black), and Jackie, who each deliver their point of view while telling the story, showing what had happened.
Carrie White (Angela Bettis), is the most shy and unpopular girl in high school. She is constantly tormented by girls such as Chris Hargensen (Emilie de Ravin) and Tina Blake (Katharine Isabelle). She is considered an outcast among the entire school.
At the beginning of the film, Carrie is seen in a rowdy class, with rough-playing teenagers all around the room. The teacher calls her attention, and informs her that her mother has requested she be excluded from the upcoming evolution lesson. Then, she is seen in an all-girl gym class, ending their softball game, and all the girls head to the locker room to shower. There, while washing herself, Carrie begins to panic and fear for her life when she is washing her pelvic-vaginal area. She brings her hands to her chest and notices her blood-soaked hands; she's having her first period, at the age of 17. When she begins hyperventilating in her own stall, blood, now mixed with the water, beings to flow along the floor, catching the attention of Tina Blake, who then brings all of the other girls. The other girls begin laughing and tormenting her further, one girl shouting,"Did you get your period?". Chris Hargensen begins the girls' chanting, "Period". When Miss Desjarden comes in to investigate, she is shocked to learn that Carrie has no idea of what is happening to her, lying in a fetal position in the shower. She realizes that she understands why the other girls were being so cruel. Miss Desjarden takes Carrie's side, and lets her take study hall instead, and confronts the other girls while they are changing in the locker room. Chris decides to skip detention, resulting in her suspension and exclusion from the prom.
Afterwards, while sitting in class, Tina, Sue, and Helen (Chelan Simmons) pass notes and laugh at Carrie as her telekinetic powers take over her, causing her to bend a solid metal ruler and her seemingly metal pen. She wakes from her trance to find her teacher telling her it's time to go to her other class. When Carrie picks up her binder, she discovers her desk has cracked.
Later Sue is seen talking to her boyfriend Tommy Ross (Tobias Mehler), asking him to take Carrie to the prom, since Sue feels bad for her after taking part in the locker room incident. After hesitation, Sue talks Tommy into taking her. The next day, Tommy finds Carrie in the library, where he asks her to prom. She at first declines, but Tommy eventually talks her into going with him. She leaves as Tina and her crew begin to come closer to her, questioning her conversation with Tommy. Chris goes into the locker room (sometime before or after Tommy asks Carrie) and discovers Carrie talking on the phone to some sort or paranormal counselor. When Chris enters the office, Carrie hangs up frantically, and explains that she was talking to her mother. Chris disregards it, and tries to persuade Carrie that Sue is the "bad guy". She tells Carrie to tell Sue, "At least when I'm being a bitch, I'll cop to it."
The night she agrees to go with Tommy, Carrie returns home. At dinner, while eating cake with her over-religious mother, Margaret White (Patricia Clarkson), Carrie tells her the good news, but her mother forbids it, telling her that it is a sin. Carrie defies her mother, entering into a heated argument. Margaret gets angry and tries to leave after throwing her cup of tea in Carrie's face. However, Carrie shuts the door to the living room with her telekinetic powers, and sends the entire table toppling upwards to block the second doorway, forcing her mother to sit and talk with her. Carrie tells her that things are going to be changing around here.
It then cuts to Helen talking with Sue about how Chris hates her while decorating the gym for the prom. Tina then starts talking to Chris about how she got the new ballots with Carrie and Tommy as a nominee couple. Chris wonders why she is on there, and Tina tells her it's all part of a little "joke", and Chris then calls her boyfriend Billy to tell him the plan. Sue also finds Carrie at the mall and helps her pick out lipstick for her to wear.
Later, Carrie talks to her mother about which dress should she make, but is instead told that Jesus doesn't love her anymore. Carrie then scolds her mother telling her Jesus loves everyone, even her. The "prom prank" is set into motion when Chris, her boyfriend Billy, Tina's boyfriend Kenny, and another friend, Jackie, go to a pig farm, to collect pig blood to fill a bucket. Billy ends up killing the pig when the others decline killing it.
The night of prom comes, and Carrie is in her room, dressed and ready for Tommy to arrive. She applies her make-up, but is interrupted when her mother comes up to ask her to not go, asking her to burn her dress and pray for forgiveness. Carrie becomes frustrated, and uses her power to send Margaret sliding across the room and out of the door. Margaret attempts to stay by grabbing onto the door, but Carrie shuts it after warning her mother to watch her fingers. Margaret then leaves the house.
7:35 pm rolls around and Carrie begins anticipating Tommy's arrival (he was supposed to be there at 7:30). In her impatience and anxiety, she begins to subconsciously levitate objects, beginning with the table and ending with a small cross. Tommy arrives at the door, and in her despair, all of the furniture Carrie was levitating drops, causing a loud crash. Tommy asks her what has happened, asking if her ceiling has collapsed, and she says yes in an attempt to lead him astray from her power. She stops at the edge of her porch to see the limousine the Tommy has brought. They both enter the limo, as her mother deceitfully watches from the bushes.
Carrie and Tommy soon arrive at the school, and Carrie insists on waiting in the limo for a bit. After about a minute, Tommy lets her out and they enter the dance. Everyone is surprised to see Carrie at the prom, as they would have never suspected her to be there. Helen and her date, Roy Everts, talk to Carrie and Tommy, complimenting them. Helen never hated Carrie, but just pretended to be mean so she could stay "cool" with her friends. Tina starts handing out ballots so she can collect them and replace them in an attempt to rig the contest. Norma is awe-struck at how beautiful Carrie looks, as is Miss Desjarden, who sits down and talks to Carrie about how high school may suck, but it will be all over soon. She then finds out Tommy is her date and talks to him in private, telling him if he pulls anything on Carrie, she will see to it that he is expelled.
Carrie is surprised to find that she is on the nominating ballot, but Helen says she is voting for Carrie. Tina then switches the ballots and Norma goes to the stand to report the results. She announces that Carrie and Tommy have won. Everyone is shocked at first, but begin to applaud.
Meanwhile Chris and Billy are above, with the pigs blood in the bucket. Billy demands that Chris pull the cord holding the bucket up, as Tommy and Carrie are crowned. Carrie then goes into her own little moment when she and Tommy have a dance and kiss, but is brought back to reality when a droplet of blood falls on her hand. As she looks up, Chris pulls the cord, sending the entire bucket of pig blood splattering down on Carrie.
Everyone is in shock at this, including Tommy, who angrily throws his scepter and crown down. Carrie opens her eyes and examines her blood-soaked arms, as Chris and Billy run, letting the cord go. The heavy metal bucket plummets down, crashing down on Tommy's head, killing him. It is then that Carrie's pupils dilate as the majority of the crowd begins laughing at her. Kenny begins chanting,"Oooo-wheee! Pig pig pig!", and Helen storms over and slaps him before she and Miss Desjarden run up to the stage to assist Carrie and Tommy. A sudden wave of paranormal power ripples through the gym, passing through everyone, and Miss Desjarden looks shocked, sensing that it came from Carrie.
Tina and Kenny try storming out of the gym, but Carrie slams the doors shut with her power as she remains rigid on the stage, spattered in red. Kenny gets his arm stuck in the door, trapping him as lights start falling from the ceiling, sending showers of sparks everywhere and catching fire to the mural. People start to panic and try leaving the gym, running around and trying to open the doors.
Tina, in a fit of rage, pushes a boy out of the way, but Carrie loosens a side from a basketball hoop board. As Tina pushes her way out of the kids surrounding the doors, the board comes down, bashing Tina in the back with the edge, and sending her sprawling to the gym floor. As she looks up in shock, the entire board swings around on its remaining bolts before breaking loose of it entirely. The entire board swings up into the air before whirling directly back at Tina, landing on her, crushing her and killing her instantly.
Some people attempt to crawl up the dangling ropes to escape the fire below, but Carrie makes sure to send them toppling down into the flames as she begins sending tables and chairs whirling through the air, some of which hit the danglers from their ropes. The fire sprinklers turn on, raining water down all over the floor as people continue to panic. Principal Morton runs onto the stage and attempts to calm everyone down, but is electrocuted to death as the water hits the wires by use of Carrie's power. Carrie busts a water pipe that runs along the gym wall, feeding the sprinklers, making the sprinklers stop. The water instead begins gushing out of the broken pipe, spilling down onto the gym floor.
Miss Desjarden, Norma, and a few other students manage to open up a vent, creating an exit route. Carrie causes the water around her to separate and spread away from her as she begins walking down from the stage. Using her powers, she begins taking advantage of the electronic basketball scoreboard, which begins sparking and loosening as a pair of swinging lights smashes against it.
Suddenly aware of the threat of the electricity hitting the flooded floor, Miss Desjarden screams, "Everybody get off the floor!". In a hurry, she jumps onto a chair to crawl up into the vent, but accidentally topples the chair over, leaving her hanging above the water-soaked floor as the scoreboard falls, sending electricity through the water. Everyone still standing on the floor, with the exception of Carrie, begin flailing around before falling to the floor, dead from the violent electric shock. Carrie walks calmly out of the gym as Miss Desjarden struggles to hang on to the vent opening.
Carrie then walks out of the school, toppling the entire flaming roof of it behind her as she leaves. Sue then hears sirens coming from around her house as Carrie begins walking down into the town, heading home. She continues to create chaos as she continues through the town, loosening gas pumps and spilling gasoline through the street while bringing down live wires and sending broken off fence boards shooting through cars. The gasoline ignites and explodes, starting another fire that begins spreading through the town.
Chris and Billy receive a visit from Jackie, who explains what havoc they have caused. Billy orders him to leave without speaking to anyone, and then drives Chris into town. An electrical live wire pole collapses before them, and Billy narrowly dodges it. They come to a stop, only to see the bolts on a fire hydrant being telekinetically loosened. A jet stream of water strikes his car, forcing him to turn on his wipers. He sees someone walking towards the car, and accelerates towards the figure, only to see that it is blood-soaked Carrie. Carrie takes control of the car and lifts it up off the ground with her telekinesis, sending the car flying against a tree, crushing Chris and Billy to death. Carrie slams her door open as she arrives at her home. She pushes the dropped things from earlier away with her mind, and turns on the water in her bathtub. It is filled just as Carrie arrives in the room. As she lies down in the water, dress and shoes still on, she turns the water off and manipulates a drop of water that falls. She gains control of herself again, confused as to how she got into her home (her last conscious moment was at the prom). Her mother steps into the bathroom, telling her that she had said that Carrie's sin would find her. Carrie desperately asks her mother to help her to remember. Margaret asks her to recite a bedtime prayer. As Carrie says, "I pray the Lord my soul to keep", Carrie's mother attempts to drown her, but Carrie kills her mother by using her powers to squeeze Margaret's heart. Carrie then sinks down into the water, unconscious.
At the interrogation, Sue explains how she found Carrie dead in the water while investigating. However, in truth, she had actually found Carrie and had pulled her out, successfully reviving her. Carrie dons a blond wig as a disguise, and visits her own grave, along with her mother's, and the newly-dug graves those of everyone Carrie had killed, where Sue asks her what she's going to do next. Sue says she could take her as far as Florida, and the film closes with the two heading down a dark, rainy highway.
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| Carrie (by Stephen King) |
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