Based on a novel by Stephen King, "It" follows a group of "losers", as they style themselves, and their attempts to come to terms with a lurking evil in their community. This menace appears in many forms, reflecting the greatest fear of its chosen victim, but often reverts to the character of Pennywise the Clown (Tim Curry). Led by the young Bill Denburgh (Jonathan Brandis) the losers hunt down the monster and, by exploiting monster’s compulsion to feed of their imagination, they prevail. Thirty years later the losers have grown up and, with the exception of Mike Hanlon,(Marlon Taylor/Tim Reid) have moved on, achieved success and somehow forgotten the traumas of that summer. As the film picks up their lives once more the characters are contacted by Mike with the news that Pennywise has returned and they are forced to remember. The gang struggle to come to terms with this and one of their number commits suicide rather than revisit the horrors of the past. However, although their memory of how to defeat the monster has faded along with their recollection of it, they do succeed in finally destroying it once and for all.