Carrie

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Piper Laurie holds a knife and embraces Sissy Spacek in a tense scene from the film Carrie (1976), directed by Brian De Palma.

Carrie

film by De Palma [1976]

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Brian De Palma
The 1970s
…his first major hit with Carrie, a thriller based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. Sissy Spacek gave a nuanced performance as an introverted teen whose largely suppressed telekinetic powers come to the fore after she is humiliated by the high-school in-crowd (played by Nancy Allen,…
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…his first major hit with Carrie, a thriller based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. Sissy Spacek gave a nuanced performance as an introverted teen whose largely suppressed telekinetic powers come to the fore after she is humiliated by the high-school in-crowd (played by Nancy Allen,…
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Sissy Spacek
Breakthrough: Carrie, 3 Women, Coal Miner’s Daughter
…Brian De Palma’s horror classic Carrie (1976), based on a Stephen King novel. She earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance. She then costarred with Shelley Duvall and Janice Rule in Robert Altman’s enigmatic 3 Women (1977).
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…Brian De Palma’s horror classic Carrie (1976), based on a Stephen King novel. She earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance. She then costarred with Shelley Duvall and Janice Rule in Robert Altman’s enigmatic 3 Women (1977).
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