Word: prom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phantom. She has this mysterious way of slipping into a part, letting it take over her. She's got a wider range than any young actress I know." Her range has never been better demonstrated than in Carrie's split-second transformation from radiant prom queen to blood-drenched avenger. It is a piece of acting virtuosity that elicits one of the deepest frissons contemporary movies have to offer...
...teacher, nicely played by Betty Buckley, rescues her and punishes her tormentors with extrastrenuous work outs, which naturally leads the dear chil dren to plot still deeper humiliation for Carrie. The idea is to rig her election as prom queen and destroy her at her moment of unexpected triumph...
Romantic Dream. One of the film's high points occurs at the senior prom, where the star jock (William Katt, a young actor of near Redfordian charm) has been gulled into dating Carrie in or der to set her up for her fall. He begins to respond to her unaffectedly, and Carrie is suddenly living a dream of romance long cherished. Their waltz, full of discovery and promise, is a very touching thing. It is especially poignant since the audience knows what those vicious girls are planning and suspects what havoc Carrie will unleash in response...
...students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third installment, a meat-cleaver satire about prom night in the '50s that had all the wit and technical finesse of a stag reel...
...heart, corneas and kidneys were used in transplant operations soon afterward). The boys and girls had gone through junior high school together. They had all performed together in Fiddler on the Roof earlier this year. Only three weeks from graduation, many of them had gone to the prom the previous Saturday. Now their friends dazedly shuffled through Yuba City High School, pausing disconsolately from time to time at the principal's window to read the daily notice that listed the condition of the injured; at week's end 17 were still in the hospital. Said Karen Hess...