<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $33.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name . The film was directed by Brian De Palma and produced by Paul Monash, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen . </P> <P> The film received two Academy Award nominations, one for Sissy Spacek in the title role and one for Piper Laurie as her abusive mother . The film featured numerous young actors--including Nancy Allen, William Katt, Amy Irving, and John Travolta--whose careers were launched, or escalated, by the film . It also relaunched the career of Laurie, who had not appeared in a motion picture since 1961 . </P> <P> Carrie was the first of more than 100 film and television productions adapted from, or based on, the published works of Stephen King . </P>

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