Carrie (2002) on Netflix
Carrie White, a shy high school student, is tormented by the popular girls at school and by her religious mother at home. She discovers she can move objects with her mind.
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Plot summary
Carrie White is a lonely student at Ewen High School, taunted by the popular girls, among them Chris Hargensen and Tina Blake. After gym class, when she has her first period in the shower, the girls humiliate her until the gym teacher, Miss Desjarden, steps in. Miss Desjarden gives the girls a week of detention, and any who skip it are banned from the prom. Carrie's mother, Margaret, a religious woman who treats menstruation as sin, locks her in a prayer closet. Carrie learns she can move objects with her mind and begins to test the ability at home. Chris, banned from the prom, asks her boyfriend Billy Nolan to help her get even, while Sue Snell, who regrets taking part in the bullying, asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to escort Carrie to the prom.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Carrie (2002)
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NBC originally wanted a movie-of-the-week, but the studio wanted to capitalize on the production, so it was planned as a backdoor pilot for a potential series; the novel's ending was changed so Carrie White remained alive.SPOILER
Writer Bryan Fuller hoped a series would have Carrie deal with remorse for killing 234 people and travel with Sue to help others with telekinetic powers; he wrote a second-episode outline, but NBC had no interest and MGM ended their deal.- Writer Bryan Fuller considered giving Carrie's abilities to Sue Snell or creating "another Carrie", but rejected killing a character "who is victimized her entire life" as "really cruel".
- A sub-plot featuring Jasmine Guy as Ruby Moore, a paranormal investigator, was developed for the potential series, but the scenes were ultimately cut from the film.
- Stephen King had no involvement in the 2002 version after another adaptation of his novel, The Rage: Carrie 2, disappointed him.
- Writer Bryan Fuller sought to update the story's 1970s setting and, because the Columbine High School massacre was still recent, was careful in handling the film's "teenage vigilante" theme.
