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Carrie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kimberly Peirce
Screenplay by	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Lawrence D. Cohen
Produced by	Kevin Misher
Starring	Chloë Grace Moretz Julianne Moore
Cinematography	Steve Yedlin
Edited by	Lee Percy
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Production company	Misher Films
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Screen Gems
Release date	October 18, 2013 (2013-10-18)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million

Carrie is an upcoming 2013 American supernatural horror film. It is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name, though MGM and Screen Gems, who are producing the film, employed a script that is reportedly more faithful to King's original novel. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the titular Carrie White, and Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother, Margaret White. Following the initial announcement of March 15, 2013 as the release date, the film's public launch was later postponed to October 18, 2013.

Plot

Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a young girl in her last 3 months of her senior year in high school. All of her life Carrie just wanted to live a normal life, the life that all teenage girls want. But Carrie's overly-religious, deranged mother Margaret White (Julianne Moore) wants Carrie to live a life free of sin. Margaret abuses Carrie, not only physically but by locking Carrie in a closet to pray.

One day, after gym class in the school showers, Carrie had her very first period (surprisingly at the age of 17 or 18). This being her first period she thought she was bleeding to death. As she was cornered to a wall the other girls laughed at Carrie and teased her by throwing tampons and feminine napkins at Carrie. One of the girls named Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday) recorded Carrie with a phone, Chris always hatted Carrie in fact Chris hates Carrie the most. Once Carrie got home her mother was praying for Carrie saying that Carrie is now a woman and if she had not sinned the curse of blood wouldn't be upon her. Margaret then told Carrie to go to her closet and pray, but Carrie refused. Margaret forced Carrie into the closet and locked the door as Carrie screams to be let out she makes a crack-in the shape of a line-go down the door, both Margaret and Carrie are surprised in this, and Carrie finally realizes her telekinetic powers.

The next day the gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Judy Greer) yells at the girls and tries to make them feel bad about what they did to Carrie, she informs the girls they will have detention for the rest of the week with with Ms.D, when Chris tells her she wont go Ms.D informs her that anyone who doesn't show up for detention will have 3 months suspension and refusal of their prom tickets. Chris felling like she didn't do anything wrong doesn't go but still plans to get revenge.

While Carrie looks up more information on her powers and practices them, another girl makes her own plans for Carrie. Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde) one of the popular girls that took part in teasing Carrie in the shower room felt bad about what she did and tries to make it up to Carrie. Sue asks her popular, handsome, jock boyfriend Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort) to take Carrie to the prom and show Carrie a good time. When Tommy asks Carrie, Carrie is at first suspicious but then accepts Tommy's invitation. Carrie informs her mom that she's been invited to prom, but Margaret says no, Carrie begs and tries to give her reason, but when Margaret walks away Carrie reveals her power to her mother.

Margaret thinks Carrie has power given by the Devil, but Carrie explains her power and how she isn't the only one and that she wants things to change, no more abuse, or closet time, Carrie finally starts to live her normal life. Margaret still believes Carrie has Godless powers and that sin has found its way into her. Carrie on the other hand gets read for prom by, buying makeup, choosing a color for her dress, sewing her dress. While Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan(Alex Russell) make a plan to humiliate Carrie at the prom.

On the night of the prom, Carrie is excited yet nervous while Margaret is saying and doing everything she can to try to stop Carrie from going. Including the famous line,"Their gonna laugh at you. Their all gonna laugh at you." Before leaving Margaret goes ballistic and annoys Carrie, Carrie telekinetically pushes her mother into the prayer closet and locks the door. When they get to the prom Carrie feels amazing, like her whole life has led to this moment. When its time to announce the prom king and queen, everyone is surprised to find out that Carie White and Tommy Ross won. That's because they technically didn't win, it was all part of Chris and Billy's plan. Chris' best friend Tina (Zoë Belkin) counter fitted the prom votes so the two could win.

Meanwhile, Sue (who is sitting at home) realizes that her period is several days late, and worries that she is pregnant. she takes a pregnancy test and it's positive. Once on stage, Chris pulled the rope to the bucket that stood above Carrie and the bucket showered her in the blood. The bucket then fell and hit Tommy on his head fracturing his skull. As few people laughed, Carrie remembered her mother's words and ran toward the door, untill the video that Chris taped of carrie in the locker room, appears on the big screens above the stage. Finaly having enough, carrie unleashed her power on all the prom-goers. Carrie locked all the doors so no one could escape and used telekinesis on the objects and people to cause death. As Sue came to see Carrie, what she saw was the terror that Carrie caused, Sue watched from the closed doors as a fire start and the burning object flew across the room. Although, Ms. Desjardin and a few students were able to escape.

As the school burned to the ground Carrie left and while she walked home covered in blood she left a trail of fire and mass destruction on the town. On the way home, Carrie saw Chris and Billy driving toward her in an attempt to run her over but she used her powers to throw Billy's car into a tree, killing them. When Carrie got home she ran to the closet where She locked her mother in, little did she know that while she was at the prom Margaret broke out using banging on the crack Carrie left and grabbed a knife.

Margaret then found Carrie and told her about how she (Carrie) was conceived out of rape (Carrie's parents believed sexual intercourse was a sin, but Carrie's dad got drunk and raped Margret, she admited that she "liked it") Margaret then took the knife and stabbed Carrie in the shoulder, mortally wounding her. When Margaret was about to kill Carrie for good, Carrie stops her mother's hand, and makes her stab herself in the heart and watches her die. Carrie, after realizing what she's done; becomes hysterical and makes stones start to rain into the house, but not before sue shows up. A furious Carrie grabed Sue with her powers and asked her why everyone tricked her at the prom; Sue then showed Carrie her mind and proved to her that she had nothing to do with what happened at the prom. Carrie tells her that the baby is a girl and throws her out of the house before the stones crushed it, and possibly killing Carrie.

In a post-credits scene, a very pregnant Sue is shown driving to an unknown location and says "We're almost there." to Carrie who is sleeping in the back seat.

Cast

• Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie White
• Julianne Moore as Margaret White, Carrie's mother
• Judy Greer as Miss Desjardin, the gym teacher
• Portia Doubleday as Chris Hargensen
• Alex Russell as Billy Nolan
• Gabriella Wilde as Sue Snell
• Ansel Elgort

Production history

In May 2011, representatives from MGM and Screen Gems announced that the two companies were producing a film remake of Carrie. The two studios hired Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to write a screenplay that delivers "a more faithful adaption" of King's novel—Aguirre-Sacasa previously adapted King’s work The Stand into a comic book in 2008.

Upon hearing of the new adaptation, King remarked, "The real question is why, when the original was so good?" He also suggested Lindsay Lohan for the main role and stated that "it would certainly be fun to cast". Actress Sissy Spacek, who played Carrie in de Palma's adaptation, expressed an opinion on the choice of Lohan for the character of Carrie White, stating that she "was like, 'Oh my God, she's really a beautiful girl' and so I was very flattered that they were casting someone to look like me instead of the real Carrie described in the book. It's gonna be real interesting." In March 2012, the role of Carrie White was offered to Chloë Grace Moretz, who accepted the role.

Kimberly Peirce is the film's director, while Moore stars as Margaret White and Gabriella Wilde appears in the role of Sue Snell. Alex Russell, who appears in the film Chronicle, and Broadway actor Ansel Elgort are also members of the main cast, and Judy Greer plays the gym teacher Miss Desjardin.

Release

The initial release date was March 15, 2013, but in early January 2013 the release date was moved to October 18, 2013.

Sony held a "First Look" event at the New York Comic Con on October 13, 2013 that allowed attendees to view the film prior to the release date. The event was followed by a panel session with several members of the cast and crew.

Trailers for the film included a phone number that offered promotions to the caller, as well as a recording of a simulated encounter with characters from the film.

Reception

Early reviews for Carrie have been mixed. Template:Rots

References

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External links

• Official website
• Carrie at IMDb
• Carrie at Box Office Mojo
• Carrie at Rotten Tomatoes
• Carrie at Metacritic
• Official Facebook page

• 2013 films
• 2013 horror films
• 2010s horror films
• American films
• American horror films
• English-language films
• Films about revenge
• Films based on works by Stephen King
• Films shot in Toronto
• Horror film remakes
• Supernatural horror films
• Screen Gems films
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films