| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 27, 1993 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Needful Things is the best Stephen King movie in years. It is, in a sense, a black comedy, but you have to be a little sick to laugh. I laughed. [27 Aug 1993, p.3F]
Solid B-level stuff, better than most filmed King novels. [27 Aug 1993, p.81]
Better than most Stephen King adaptations, mainly because an exceptionally strong cast adds substance to the facile storyline about a mysterious stranger, Leland Gaunt (von Sydow), who opens the antique shop of the title in Castle Rock, Maine, and, by tapping into the inhabitants' acquisitive desires, sets them at one another's throats.
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