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Oct 1, 1991 · Stephen King. 3.97. 253,700 ratings6,380 reviews. Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a ...
Aug 27, 1993 · Needful Things was apparently trimmed down from the director's three-hour cut - aired only once, on TBS - to make the tidier, marquee-friendly version seen here. Much of the flavor of King's busy novel is lost with the drastic thinning of the cast, but the focus on just a handful of players and the devilish, dangerous web of pranks in which ...
Aug 27, 1993 · Slow-paced and repetitive, Needful Things is overlong and overwrought, and the whole thing should be promptly exorcised. [27 Aug 1993, p.A] Read More. By Clifford Terry. See All 18 Critic Reviews. View All. User Score. Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings. 6.4. 41% Positive.
Castle Rock, New England, is a nice place to live and grow and Sheriff Alan Pangborn (Ed Harris) moves from the big city to the town expecting a quiet life. When Leland Gaunt (Max Von Sydow) opens the store Needful Things, he seems to have the object of desire for each dweller. He charges small amounts to the things but requests a practical ...
A little interesting fact that Fraser Clarke Heston is in fact the son of the legendary Charlton Heston, a little novelty of things that came up when fact diving for this film. "Needful Things" would be one of the few films delivered by the director, who really only worked in television beforehand and "Alaska" (1996) which was serviceable ...
Needful Things has Stephen King at his best in some places and at his worst in others. First, the good: Needful Things gives you 950 pages of classic King doing something he's really, really figured out how to do well: lock some average Joes in an enclosed space (usually a small town or a single building), introduce some horror/paranormal catalyst, and then bring it all to a slow boil before ...
690. ISBN. 978-0-670-83953-7. Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first novel King wrote after his rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. [1] It was made into a film of the same name in 1993 which was directed by Fraser C. Heston. The story focuses on a shop that sells collectibles and ...
