Carrie

"Carrie" is one of the most gratifying experiences I've ever had in my movie viewing history because of Laurence Olivier's no-holds-barred performance. And that is no faint praise. Shakespeare may very well be his forte but I don't think Olivier... Full review

*** I think you can not write about this movie without it containing a spoiler. The advertising makes it look like a glossy romance, and it is much deeper and darker.***Do not miss this one, it is highly regarded for... Full review

In Columbia Clay, Missouri, the young and naive Carrie Meeber (Jennifer Jones) boards the train expecting to meet her older sister in Chicago and have a better life in the big city. While traveling in the train, she meets the... Full review

Not for nothing is Laurence Olivier heralded as one of the greatest actors of our time, and if ever a film proved it, it's "Carrie," an adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie." Dreiser is the man who brought us "An... Full review

Lawrence Olivier plays a man that's comfortably off in the high society of Chicago at the end of the 19th century. He'll risk everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) for the love of a young lady. Of course, if the young... Full review

William Wyler's 'Carrie' is an excellent film that seems to have been passed by over the years. It is generally not considered a classic, perhaps because only a small number have actually viewed it (in it's entirety- with the 'flophouse'... Full review

A well respected spawn of Chicago society, George Hurstwood ,(Lawrence Olivier) from outward appearances, seems to have it all!! Money, stature, and prestige!! Being a deservedly integral facet of a well renowned Lincoln Park restaurant in the late 1890's suggests... Full review

This was a pretty powerful melodrama, thanks to the great performance of Sir Laurence Olivier.Olivier plays an unhappily-married older man who falls for the young and beautiful Jennifer Jones (not hard to understand!).....and pays a huge price for his adultery.... Full review

I read the book at 17 and picked it up again. I remember seeing the film many years ago and decided to buy the video. What a find. I had never realized how romantic Sir Olivier could be. Talk about how... Full review

At a time when many cineasts are beginning to respond to the beauties of Powell and Pressburger's "Gone to Earth", Wyler's "Carrie", that other most underrated masterpiece, continues to attract too little appreciative attention. It is not difficult to see... Full review

And in the minds of many, this is Olivier's greatest screen performance.....For a major Hollywood film from its era, this is an uncommonly downbeat endeavor..... ... Full Review

Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel Sister Carrie is a grim masterpiece of social yearning and economic desperation;.... ... Full Review

into a heartbreaking love story, bypassing the bad-girl-makes-good angle to focus on George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier), a middle-aged, wealthy restaurateur who gives up his home in Chicago, his wife, and his children to run off with the young and beautiful... ... Full Article

Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. ... Full Article