"Sue, are you sure you aren't still trying to save a girl who died twenty
years ago?"
The film is set in a small town high school, where the members of the football team set the social order. Emulating the "Spur Posse" from Lakewood, California, the boys on the team compete to see who can seduce the most girls, rating them on the point system, and then discarding them as pathetic losers.
The story opens with Lisa, a victim of this game who responds by jumping off the school to her death. Lisa turns out to be the only friend of Rachel Lang. Intelligent, but a social outcast, Rachel lives with foster parents; her father is unknown and her mother has been institutionalized. Rachel plans to go after Lisa's victimizer, Eric Stark, but becomes attracted to the smart football player, Jesse Ryan. While this forces the keepers of the social order to partially accept her, they secretly plan her downfall. But unknown to them, Rachel's recently arrived hormones have brought on something else - telekinesis. The one person who recognizes what is happening is guidance counselor Sue Snell, a lucky survivor of the telekinetic massacre perpetrated by Carrie White at the senior prom. Sue wants Rachel to get the help she needs, but it is already too late, as the stage is set for another showdown, but this time it's at the football game's after-party.
In my view this film is not a patch on the original movie...yet it is still good fun and worth watching.
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| Directed by | Katt Shea |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Paul Monash |
| Written by | Stephen King
(characters) Rafael Moreu |
| Starring | Emily Bergl Mena Suvari Jason London Amy Irving |
| Distributed by | Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
| Release date(s) | March 12, 1999 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $21,000,000 (estimated) |