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Release Date:
27 August 1993 (USA)
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Plot:
Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn's pleasant little New England town, and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever you need...
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1 win
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Max von Sydow | ... | Leland Gaunt (as Max Von Sydow) |
 | Ed Harris | ... | Sheriff Alan Pangborn |
 | Bonnie Bedelia | ... | Polly Chalmers |
 | Amanda Plummer | ... | Nettie Cobb |
 | J.T. Walsh | ... | Danforth Keeton III |
 | Ray McKinnon | ... | Deputy Norris Ridgewick |
 | Duncan Fraser | ... | Hugh Priest |
 | Valri Bromfield | ... | Wilma Jerzyck |
| Shane Meier | ... | Brian Rusk |
 | William Morgan Sheppard | ... | Father Meehan (as W. Morgan Sheppard) |
 | Don S. Davis | ... | Reverend Rose |
| Campbell Lane | ... | Frank Jewett |
| Eric Schneider | ... | Henry Beaufort |
 | Frank C. Turner | ... | Pete Jerzyck |
 | Gillian Barber | ... | Myrtle Keeton |
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120 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) |
Norway:15 |
Spain:18 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #32447)
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Sherriff Alan Pangborn, played here by Ed Harris, also appears in The Dark Half (1993), released earlier the same year, in which the part is played by Michael Rooker.
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Continuity: When Brian Rusk takes the box of apples to the Jerzyk farm, there is a purple liner under the apples. The liner is gone in the next shot of the inside of the box.
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Leland Gaunt:
When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land. Moving, always moving. Always gone... and in the end I'd always offer weapons. And they'd always take them. Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater: Viki Williamson Night" (1995)
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Soundtrack:
Great Balls Of Fire
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I love Stephen King, and I've tried to see as many of the movie adaptations of his books as possible. I haven't read a Stephen King book I didn't like - and Needful Things was the first Stephen King book I ever read, so it has a special spot for me. I think this was a pretty good movie, but could have been better if made into a mini-series and more of the stories in the plot could have been developed more fully. I realize this isn't always possible, but in the case of this movie, so many important plot twists were left out it was kind of hard to recognize the story. I think the casting was pretty good and this is a cute little movie to watch if you have some time to kill. But I definitely recommend that you pick up the book and read it if you want the whole story. You'll be shocked to see how much was left out.