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Priscilla Pointer has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Carrie.
Hardcore
1979
Drama · Crime
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir. David Lynch · With Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle
Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.
Dir. Frank Perry · With Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
Dir. Harold Becker · With John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales
