There may have been more than 30 Stephen King adaptations over the years, but only a handful – Carrie, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Shining, Misery – have become timeless. Alas, this 1990 three-hour two-part TV miniseries just isn’t one of them. Based on King’s doorstopper novel, It relates the story of seven friends from Derry, Maine, who – in 1960 aged 10 – take on Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Tim Curry), a supernatural being/giant spider/alien who’s responsible for the deaths of countless children.
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