Needful Things Page #7

Synopsis: Castle Rock, New England, is a nice place to live and grow and Sheriff Alan Pangborn moves from the big city to the town expecting a quiet life. When Leland Gaunt opens the store Needful Things, he seems to have the object of desire for each dweller. He charges small amounts to the things but requests a practical joke for each of them against another inhabitant. Soon hell breaks loose in town with deaths, violence and riot and Sheriff Pangborn discovers that Leland Gaunt is the devil himself. Further, Gaunt is manipulating the population like puppets exploring the weakness and greed of each person.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Fraser C. Heston
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
1993
120 min
883 Views


- I got a lifetime full of reasons.

- Talk, talk, talk.

- Just blow them away, Dan.

- Don't do it, Dan.

Don't let this third-rate bastard

turn you into something worse than he is.

Shut up, Pangborn!

It's too late. Don't move. Don't you move.

Time's running out, Buster.

I killed my Myrtle already.

Now I just got to die.

No, you don't, Dan.

You didn't kill your Myrtle.

He did.

- You don't have to do this.

- Yes, you do.

- Yes, I do.

- Yes, you do.

I do.

Then take me with you.

Just me. I'm the ringleader.

- Let these other people go.

- No.

No.

For Christ's sake,

put this town out of its misery, Buster.

They're whipping you, Buster.

They're making you walk their walk

and talk their talk.

- Just do it, Buster.

- You're just like the rest of them.

It's you!

It was you all along, you cocksucker.

Sticks and stones will break my bones,

but names will never hurt me.

- Yeah, you killed my Myrtle.

- Get back.

Don't blame me.

"Blame it on the bossa nova. "

How about you take

some responsibility yourself...

...for once in your life, Buster?

I just got one thing to say to you.

Don't call me Buster.

God!

It's all right.

- You okay, buddy?

- Yeah. You?

Shouldn't have called him Buster.

You know,

there are days when I really hate this job.

This is not my best work,

not by a long shot.

Sure, a few murders

and a couple of rather lovely explosions.

I would hardly call it a rousing success,

but what the hell?

I'll be back.

In the meantime, you and Polly,

you are two terrific kids.

And you'll marry her. Trust me.

She's a lovely girl, Alan.

You'll have a wonderful family.

By the way,

give my regards to your grandson.

Bob will be his name,

international trade his game.

I'll see him in Jakarta, 2053.

August 14th, 10:
00 a. M. A nice, sunny day.

We'll make headlines. Catch.

Look out.

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