Needful Things
1993 · Movie · R · 121 min · ★ 6.3 · 37% critics
A strange new shop opens in a quiet small town, offering each customer the one thing they want most. The catch is that the real payment isn’t money, but small “favors” that stir up grudges and suspicion, pushing neighbors into escalating conflict as one person tries to figure out what’s really happening.
Based on Needful Things
Also known as Needful Things - Stephen King
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Details
- Years
- 1993
- Release date
- 1993-08-27
- Network
- TBS
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Critic score
- 37/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (607 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like small-town Stephen King stories where greed and petty feuds spiral into chaos, similar to Pet Sematary or The Dark Half; Not for you if you need deep character focus or intense, nonstop scares.
Pros: strong cast; clever temptation premise; brisk, eventful pace | Cons: thin character depth; uneven tone; not very scary
Themes
- small town
- sheriff
- based on novel or book
- pain
- strangeness
- manipulation
- malice
- prank
- devil
- desire
- occult
Cast & crew
Max von Sydow
as Leland Gaunt
Ed Harris
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
Bonnie Bedelia
as Polly Chalmers
J.T. Walsh
as Danforth Keeton III
Valri Bromfield
as Wilma Jerzyk
Ray McKinnon
as Deputy Norris Ridgewick
Lisa Blount
as Cora Rusk
Shane Meier
as Brian Rusk
Duncan Fraser
as Hugh Priest
William Morgan Sheppard
as Father Meehan
Directed by Fraser Clarke Heston