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In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min · Horror · Thriller · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
You'll float too.
Plot
In October 1988, twelve-year-old Bill Denbrough makes a paper sailboat for his seven-year-old brother Georgie. Georgie sails the boat along rainy streets, only to have it fall down a storm drain. Attempting to retrieve it, Georgie sees a clown in the drain, who introduces himself as "Pennywise the Dancing Clown". Pennywise bites off Georgie's arm and drags him into the sewer.
The following summer, Bill and his friends Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris run afoul of older bullies Henry Bowers, Belch Huggins, Patrick Hockstetter, and Victor Criss. Bill calculates that his brother's body may have washed up in the marshy wasteland "The Barrens". He investigates with his friends, believing Georgie may still be alive. Bill's classmate Ben Hanscom learns that unexplained tragedies and child disappearances have plagued the town for centuries. Fleeing Bowers' posse, Ben meets Bill's group in the Barrens. They find the sneaker of missing girl Betty Ripsom, and Patrick is killed by drowned children while searching the sewers.
Bill and Ben develop feelings for bullied girl Beverly Marsh. The group befriends orphan Mike Hanlon having rescued him from Bowers. Each member of the group has encountered terrifying manifestations of Pennywise: Ben is chased by a headless undead boy, Beverly is attacked by a sink spewing blood only children can see, Eddie is chased by a rotting leper, Stan witnesses a painting of a woman coming alive, Mike relives his parents burning alive, and a phantom of Georgie haunts Bill. Dubbing themselves "The Losers Club", they realize they are all being stalked by the same entity, which they call as "It". They determine that It appears as their individual worst fears, awakening from hibernation every 27 years to feed on the children of Derry, and that it travels via the sewer lines, which all lead to an old well under an abandoned house on Neibolt Street. Pennywise attacks them while they look through photos in Bill's garage. Beverly shows little fear of Pennywise. The group ventures to confront him, only to be separated and terrorized by their fears. As Pennywise gloats to Bill about Georgie, It charges at them, but Beverly stabs him in the head with a metal spike. Pennywise retreats after injuring Ben. The group flees with only Bill and Beverly fighting Pennywise.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Chase Palmer, Gary Dauberman
- Cinematography: Chung Chung-hoon
- Edited by: Jason Ballantine
- Music: Benjamin Wallfisch
- Production design: Claude Paré
- Produced by: Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Dan Lin, Barbara Muschietti
Cast
- Jaeden Martell as Bill Denbrough
- Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom
- Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh
- Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier
- Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hanlon
- Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kaspbrak
- Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Uris
- Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise
- Nicholas Hamilton as Henry Bowers
- Jake Sim as Belch Huggins
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, KatzSmith Productions
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $719,766,009
- Themes: small town, based on novel or book, halloween, haunted house, clown, bullying, abandoned house, coming of age, flashback, murder
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