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Release Date:
3 November 1976 (USA)
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Tagline:
You were warned never to push Carrie to the limits. Now you must face the evil consequences. more
Plot:
A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 3 wins
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4 nominations
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(9 articles)
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"Carrie" marked Brian De Palma's breakthrough
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(Cast overview, first billed only) more
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Runtime:
98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
West Germany:16 (re-rating) |
West Germany:18 (original rating) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1977) |
Finland:(Banned) (cut) (1978) |
Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1993) |
Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1991) |
Brazil:16 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:16 (re-rating) (2000) |
Argentina:X (original rating) |
Argentina:18 (re-rating) (1983) |
Spain:18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Australia:R |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18A (Alberta) (2000) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Chile:18 |
France:-16 |
Iceland:16 |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 (2000) |
Norway:18 |
Peru:18 |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R (certificate #24688) |
Ireland:18 |
UK:X (original rating)
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Amy Irving was originally rather disappointed that many of her larger scenes were cut. A scene featuring Irving and William Katt in the backseat of his truck was cut, for reasons unknown.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Ms. Collins is calling attendance in the gym after the locker room incident, she begins to call out names sharply of those who are not listening to her. She stands in front of Edie McClurg's character and snaps "Katie!" but her character's name is Helen.
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Quotes:
Margaret White:
Carrie, you haven't touched your apple cake.
Carrie White: It gives me pimples, Mama.
Margaret White: Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.
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Carrie White: It gives me pimples, Mama.
Margaret White: Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.
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Referenced in Strictly Background (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Education Blues
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How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?Why did all the girls dislike Carrie so much?
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It is a classic offbeat horror-melodrama merging harmoniously the family Gothic extravaganza, supernatural power, and a woman's movie of a peculiar kind It remains the cinema's best adaptation of a Stephen King novel
The film initiated De Palma's inclination for surprise diverts between playful imagination and reality, as in the opening, which swifts from a soft-core porn fantasia of girls taking a shower in the locker room to the fact of Carrie's menstruation for the first timethe first sign of "otherness" that will reserve her as an horrifying monster from her small-minded colleagues
All the oppression that Carrie undergoes both at home (with a bible beating maniacal mother played by scary Piper Laurie who develops twisted bizarre ideas) and at school to suppress tension which takes the shape of super telekinetic power, the ability to move objects with the strength of her mind We observe with ambivalence as Carrie's insatiable revenge jumps the line into uncontrolled mass murders ever filmed
Sissy Spacek is amazing as the mocked, helpless girl pushed over the edge Her face and body twist like a living special effect to unleash her pent up rage, as well as her character's alarming progress from painfully shy high-school teenager to Angel of Vengeance