A troubled teen grappling with her telekinetic powers is pushed to terrifying extremes by an abusive mother and high school bullies. Watch trailers & learn more. Carrie is an american epistolary novel and author stephen king's first published novel, released on april 5, 1974, with an approximate first print run of 30,000 copies.

Part of his success is a result of the very good performances by sissy spacek, as carrie, and by piper laurie, as carrie’s mother. They form a closed-off, claustrophobic household, the mother has … Withdrawn and sensitive teenager carrie white faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take … The film stars sissy spacek as carrie white, a shy teenage girl who is constantly mocked and bullied at her school. She later develops the power of telekinesis and uses it to wreak vengeance on her …

The film stars sissy spacek as carrie white, a shy teenage girl who is constantly mocked and bullied at her school. She later develops the power of telekinesis and uses it to wreak vengeance on her …