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Needful Things (1993)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:6

Rotten:15

Average Rating:4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Everyone needs something, and Leland Gaunt, the owner of the newly opened store called Needful Things, has arrived in Castle Rock to fill those needs. On the surface, Castle Rock is a sleepy... Everyone needs something, and Leland Gaunt, the owner of the newly opened store called Needful Things, has arrived in Castle Rock to fill those needs. On the surface, Castle Rock is a sleepy Maine town, but underneath there is a network of longing and restrained hostilities -- the perfect place for a unique curio shop with a little something extra. By revealing choice items, such as a lost figurine or cherished varsity jacket, to individual townsfolk, Gaunt persuades his customers to play dangerous pranks on their unsuspecting neighbors. This price proves more costly as the film unfolds; first two women fight to the death and later one man believes the entire town is out to get him. Sheriff Pangborn is the lone force determined to uncover Gaunt's secret power and save his community from the ultimate evil. [More]

Starring: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh

Starring: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh, Amanda Plummer

Director: Fraser C. Heston

Director: Fraser C. Heston
Story: Stephen King

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Nov 24, 1998

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Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

any movie that has the devil laughing to ave maria must be worth something

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Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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04/16/04
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Overlong, over-produced Stephen King byproduct. Forget it along with Firestarter, In the Mouth of Madness, Maximum Overdrive, and all the others.

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03/09/04
Jake Euker
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01/29/04
Spence D.
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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Max von Sydow has some good lines, but he delivers them in an utter vacuum.

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05/18/03
Rob Vaux
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Flipside Movie Emporium

I needed to get out of this thing long before the insipid finale.

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Alex Sandell
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03/23/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Save your soul for something more important.

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02/01/03
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide

One of Stephen King's better film adaptations

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Clint Morris
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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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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.

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07/25/02
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

Appropriately enough, the film climaxes with a series of huge explosions, each bigger and louder than the one before.

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01/01/00
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