White is the 2020 supernatural drama horror film and is the reboot of Stephen King's Novel, Carrie. The films starring India Eisley as the titular Carrie White, former Friends actress, Jennifer Ansiton as Carrie's mother Margaret White, Erin Cahill as Ms. Desjardin, Naomi Scott as Chris Hargensen, Jennifer Lawrence as Sue Snell, Ray Fisher as Tommy Ross, and Ludi Lin as Billy Nolan.
This is the first Carrie film to features the first actress of Carrie White who is an LGBT Character
The film is a reboot of the horror novel about Carrie White (Eisley), a shy lesbian outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Ansiton), who uses her telekinetic powers with devastating effect after being a victim of a cruel prank at her senior prom. The film grossed $85 million worldwide at the box office.
Plot[]
Carrie is a shy, unassertive girl who is developing an LGBT issue, nears her graduation from Ewen High School in Maine. While showering after gym class at school, Carrie experiences her first menstrual period. She naively thinks she is bleeding to death. The other girls ridicule her, and longtime bully Chris Hargensen records the event on her smartphone and uploads it to YouTube. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin comforts Carrie and sends her home with Margaret, who believes menstruation is a sin. Her mother Margaret, a disturbed religious fanatic, demands that Carrie abstain from showering with the others. When Carrie refuses, Margaret hits her with a Bible and locks her in her "prayer closet". As Carrie screams to be let out, a crack appears on the door, and the crucifix in the closet begins to bleed.
While at school, Carrie goes to the toilet but rans out of toilet paper, she learns that she has telekinesis, the ability to move things with her mind. She researches her abilities, learning to harness them. Sue Snell regrets teasing Carrie in the shower room and attempts to make amends by asking her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the prom. Carrie accepts Tommy's invitation, and after school, goes into the town and buys red velvet fabric, and makes a dress at home. When she tells her mother, Margaret forbids Carrie to attend. Asking her mother to relent, Carrie manifests her telekinesis. Margaret believes this power comes from the Devil and is proof that Carrie has been corrupted by sin and try to tell her that she's gay.
Chris, and her friends plan revenge on Carrie. They kill a pig and drain its blood into a bucket. Margaret tries to prevent Carrie from going to the prom, but Carrie telekinetically locks her mother in the closet. At the prom, Carrie is nervous and shy, but Tommy kindly puts her at ease. As part of Chris' plan, Chris' friend, Tina Blake, slips fake ballots into the voting box, which name Carrie and Tommy prom queen and king.
At home, Sue receives a text from Chris taunting her about her revenge on Carrie. Sue drives to the prom, arriving just as Carrie and Tommy are about to be crowned. Sue sees the bucket of pig's blood dangling above Carrie, but before she can warn anyone Miss Desjardin hustles her out, suspecting that Sue is planning to humiliate Carrie. Chris dumps the bucket of pig's blood onto Carrie and Tommy. Chris's shower video appears on large screens above the stage, inciting laughter from some in the audience, until the bucket falls onto Tommy's head, killing him. Enraged, Carrie takes her revenge telekinetically, killing several of the students and staff including Tina, Heather, Nicki and Lizzy, but spares Desjardin. A fire breaks out and, as the school burns to the ground, Carrie walks away, leaving a trail of fire and destruction in her wake. Chris attempt to flee in Billy's car. Chris attempt to run Carrie over, but Carrie flips the car into a gas station, setting it on fire, and killing her. Carrie arrives home and she and Margaret embrace. Margaret tells Carrie about the night of Carrie's conception. After having shared a bed platonically with her husband, they yielded to temptation one night and, after praying for strength, Carrie's father "took" Margaret, who enjoyed the experience. Margaret attacks Carrie, who attempts to flee to the street.
Sue calls the police after seeing the whole thing and Margaret is arrested for attempted murder Carrie, who left Chamberlain for good to start a new life.
Cast[]
- India Eisley as Carrie White/ A shy high school outcast who is a lesbian.
- Jennifer Lawrence as Sue Snell/ A popular girl who felt sorry for Carrie and becomes friends with her instead of Chris.
- Ray Fisher as Tommy Ross/ Sue's boyfriend and the captain of the football team.
- Ludi Lin as Billy Nolan/ Chris' ex-boyfriend who is kinder, unlike in the book.
- Naomi Scott as Chris Hargensan/ Sue's former best friend later best friend who bullys Carrie.
- Jennifer Aniston as Margaret White/ Carrie's domineering, abusive, insane and fanatically religious mother who thinks almost everything, especially related to the female body and sex, is sinful along with Carrie being a lesbian.
- Erin Cahill as Rita Desjardin/ The young, attractive and lively physical education teacher who shows kindness towards Carrie and support her issues of being gay.