Practical Magic (1998)
Directed by Griffin Dunne
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
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It would be another quarter of a century, however, before witches would again receive the Hollywood glamor treatment, and this time it came in the form of Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher in the 1987 adaption of John Updike's "The Witches of Eastwick."
Somewhere between the two falls 1987's The Witches of Eastwick, which, working from a John Updike novel, crafts a film about witches that deals with the male ego in that intensely introspective Updike way.
Call it The Bishop's Wife for 1998--one of the oddest years in movies of the last twenty, among which crop this film maintains a comfortable medium-buoyancy.
Miller's métier is stuff like the Mad Max films and Babe 2, not--no matter how grounded in fantasy they might be--Updike adaptations and Lorenzo's Oil.
Miller's métier is stuff like the Mad Max films and Babe 2, not--no matter how grounded in fantasy they might be--Updike adaptations and Lorenzo's Oil.
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Despite the good- hearted nature of Glinda in "The Wizard of Oz," most everyone -- if they originally saw that film as a child -- has the Wicked Witch of the West, with her pointed nose, green skin, and evil demeanor, permanently scarred in their psyche.