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Needful Things | Year: 1993 Classification: Horror Directed: - Fraser Clarke Heston Actors/Actresses: - Max von Sydow - Ed Harris MAD MAX RETURNS I had the pleasure to watch this movie and "The Exorcist" in the same week and could only marvel at the underrated performances of Max von Sydow in both. In this Stephen King adaptation, von Sydow effortlessly goes from charming gentlemen to vicious and sardonic Satan in the Kingesque town of Castle Rock. While in the book, King destroys the dreamy little town, it just gets blown about a bit in the movie version. As usual, they couldn't get all the good stuff in the film version (noticeably absent is the woman who has a thing for Elvis carried to a fatal climax), but writer W. D. Richter captures the essence of the book and with von Sydow's tongue in cheek performance helming the film, I enjoyed it. Ed Harris seemed a little out of place, an actor who felt he needed to bust out of the constraints of the character and become Jack Nicholson; Bonnie Bedelia was rendered pretty ineffective in trimming down Polly's role; Amanda Plummer and Valeri Brumfield as Nettie and Wanda were viciously effective, and JT Walsh did a nice over the top job in his role as the gambling fool.<BR>Director Heston didn't get enough of the real terror of the book in this movie, but it's an okay adaptation and better than "Cujo" or "Christine." A nice adaption of a great book! This movie, based on the novel by Stephen King, has such a great premise. Its underlying tones focus on the greed and self-love we all have in ourselves, and how the devil can prey on our every weekness, with something as simple as a baseball card. It fails however, in chopping up the novel, and deleting many scenes that could have made this a very important movie. If you can, watch the 3 hour directors cut that aired on TBS, which has more charcters (including Cora Rusk) and in which the sellings of leland gaunt are spanned throughout the whole movie, instead of just in the first half. Great performances all around (JT walsh a bit over the top), while Amanda Plummer shines and chills as the victim Nettie Cobb, who participates in one of the best cat-fights I have ever seen! Needful indeed Needful things is a great movie. I base movies on thier originality and you'll be hard pressed to find a movie even close to similar on this. A store called needful things.... All the old stuff that you've lost somehow and a place you can go to get one just like it.. How many times have we said "I'd do anything to get (whatever) back". Here's your answer. The movie takes a few to startup, but you begin to see what's going on and the trouble people get into because of thier needful crap. The movie ends in the longest scene of meyhem In a movie. But the soundtrack is worth the entertainment value. Buy Needful Things at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Needful Things Search with the Priority Search Engine on Needful Things This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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