Stephen King's It

MPAA Rating

Unrated

Theatrical Release Date

Nov 17, 1990

Genre(s)

• Horror

Rating (Stars)

Description

Is there anything scarier than clowns? Of course not. And who knows scary better than Stephen King? You see where we're going. It puts a malevolent clown (given demented life by a powdered, red-nosed Tim Curry) front and center, as King's fat novel gets the TV-movie treatment. Even at three hours plus, the action is condensed, but an engaging Stand by Me vibe prevails for much of the running time. The seven main characters, as adolescents, conquered a force of pure evil in their Maine hometown. Now, the cackling Pennywise is back, and they must come home to fight him--or, should we say, It--again. Admitting the TV-movie trappings and sometimes hysterical performances, this is a genuinely gripping thriller. As so often with King, the basic idea (the bond formed during a childhood trauma) is clean and powerful, a lifeline anchored in reality that leads us to the supernatural. --Robert Horton

Director

Tommy Lee Wallace

Stars

• Harry Anderson
• Dennis Christopher
• Richard Masur
• Annette O'Toole
• Tim Reid

Running Time

193 minutes

Original Price

$14.96

Current Value

$3.57

DVD Features

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
• 1.85:1