Needful Things (1993)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 16
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Critic Reviews: 3
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Movie Info
Satan opens an antique shop in a small town and lures the residents into evil actions in this supernatural chiller. Based on a novel by the prolific Stephen King, the film bears many of the author's trademarks, such as the New England setting and the focus on regular people tempted by the forces of supernatural evil. Here, the enticements toward bad behavior comes from the "Needful Things" shop, owned by new resident Leland Gaunt (Max von Sydow). Gaunt's shop offers an odd collection of goods,
Aug 27, 1993 Wide
Dec 22, 1998
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Max von Sydow
Leland Gaunt -
Ed Harris
Sheriff Alan Pangbor... -
Bonnie Bedelia
Polly Chambers -
Amanda Plummer
Nettie Cobb -
J.T. Walsh
Danforth Keeton III -
Ray McKinnon
Deputy Norris Ridgew... -
Duncan Fraser
Hugh Priest -
Valri Bromfield
Wilma Jerzyk -
Shane Meier
Brian Rusk -
Melvin Allen
Baseball Announcer -
Gillian Barber
Myrtle Keeton -
Lisa Blount
Cora Rusk -
Robert Easton
Lester Pratt -
D.J. Jackson
Eddie Warburton -
Tamsin Kelsey
Sheila Ratcliff -
Campbell Lane
Frank Jewett -
Deborah Wakeham
Myra -
Don S. Davis
Reverend Rose -
Gary Paller
George Cobb -
Bill Croft
Andy Clutterbuck -
Frank C. Turner
Pete Jerzyk -
Sarah Sawatsky
14 Year Old Girl -
Eric Schneider
Henry Beaufort -
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William Morgan Shepp...
Father Meehan -
Lochlyn Munro
John LaPointe
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any movie that has the devil laughing to ave maria must be worth something
Overlong, over-produced Stephen King byproduct. Forget it along with Firestarter, In the Mouth of Madness, Maximum Overdrive, and all the others.
Max von Sydow has some good lines, but he delivers them in an utter vacuum.
I needed to get out of this thing long before the insipid finale.
Save your soul for something more important.
One of Stephen King's better film adaptations
A fine adaptation of one of Stephen King's best novels, it almost manages to surpass the book solely on the strength of Von Sydow's glowering villainy.
Pop Needful Things into your player with no particular expectations and you might find it a worthwhile distraction.
Appropriately enough, the film climaxes with a series of huge explosions, each bigger and louder than the one before.
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