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Title: Needful Things (2002)
Format: DVD
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Starring: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, and J.T. Walsh
Director: Fraser Clarke Heston
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 120 minutes
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Review of Needful Things

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Comments for Needful Things

• Posted on 2010-05-16
  Do yourself a favor and read the book!
  
  Stephen King's Needful Things, is truly one of the finest, and most memorable books that I have ever read. One of his very best. He proves himself over and over again, with his amazing abilities, by giving birth to this chilling, and very detail laced saga, of a small town in Maine, whose inhabitants are wily and unknowingly coerced, to do seemingly petty and harmless acts of low level mischief to one another, in order to gain access to certain items for sale at the new store, that has just opened up in town, (Needful Things). But as the story continues, the envied baseball card, or the picture of Elvis, etc, seems to take on a more and more obsessive consuming of the owners lives, as everything else's importance seems to just fade away, as if one were a worthless street bum, infatuated with a brand new bottle their favorite poison. The seemingly insignificant deeds, done at the shop owner's requests, bring on a much more foul and bloody result from their doings, than anyone would ever dream or imagine. Soon the whole town is in disarray, as once best of friends, or neighbors with small grievances with another, are now at each other's throats, and behind it all, is a plot that will take castle Rock off any map that they may have ever found themselves on, in the first place. This should have been made into a top quality 5 part TV mini-series. Instead, it was butchered in the movie house, like a fine filet mignon, that was tossed on a BBQ in the middle of a grease fire, caused by last night's burger party, and pushed onto a plate, a la carte, covered with a nasty ketchup sauce of violence and explosions, never giving a chance to the viewer to savor the subtleties of the "tenderness and juiciness" from the build up of the characters, and their intertwinings with each other, before the whole town starts to go to pot! I was left feeling raped of my cash, both from the movie, and the 1000% mark up on the popcorn, as I departed the theater, wanting to go home and pen a nasty letter to the person who did the screen adaptation work, and the director, for doing more heinous violence to this great book, on film, that all the bloody goings on in the movie itself. SHAME upon them! READ THE BOOK! The ending simply stood my hair on end!
  
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• Posted on 2009-12-08
  Exellent choice
  
  This is the second item that I purshased with Amazon.com I like their service and their products and they have
  good prices on all merchandise I'm very happy to be a customer... sincerely JA
  
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• Posted on 2009-12-05
  unusual & entertaining movie
  
  I saw this movie several years ago on tv (not your typical horror film) and while i couldn't get certain parts of it out of my mind... i couldn't remember other parts... so i bought it to re-watch and i'm glad i did. If you decide to buy it... you'll be glad too! The crux of the movie is this.... how many 'things' from our past would we give 'anything' to possess again? EXAMPLE: What length would you be willing to go... to get badly declining health back? You might be saying... now that's a hard question! I did get and appreciate the movie's underlying message.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-25
  Needful Things
  
  Disc in great shape. Took almost a month to get here. Seller said they switched carriers due to lost packages. I dont hold it against seller.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-15
  way way too harsh!
  
  I just read Jeff Shannon's review of this film and quite frankly i don't understand why he is so harsh. it may not be the best stephen king film but it's far from the worst. it's actually pretty good and quite underrated, esp. if you have seen the expanded tv version which is even better. why that hasn't been released on dvd is a true shame. what fans of this film really need is a truly re-edited version, that combines the two versions into one film. in any case,if you like steve's work of you liked the book,pay no attention to the review and go ahead and rent or buy this film, you won't be sorry.
  now, if you want to see a truly horrible film,why not try "Independence Day" or "Transformers" both are completely unwatchable garbage and both made tons of cash. you decide!
  
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