Carrie (2002)

Director
David Carson

Main cast
Angela Bettis; Patricia Clarkson; Rena Sofer; Kandyse McClure; Emilie de Ravin

Genres
Drama, Horror

Description
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.


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