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 enlarge | Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Jane Horrocks, Anne Lambton
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 359
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0790740885
UPC: 125690671276
EAN: 9780790740881
ASIN: 0790740885
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1990
Release Date: June 22, 1999
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 AND THE WINNER IS?????.................... August 19, 2007
jefree.m.s. (Los Angeles, California USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I HAVE WATCHED THE WITCHES CONVENTION SCENE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! THIS IS ONE OF !!THE!! GREAT PERFORMANCES IN ANY FILM BY AN ACTRESS. IN THIS CASE THE BRILLIANTLY TALENTED ANJELICA HOUSTON!!!
SHE HAS IMMORTALIZED AND EMBLAZONED THE "GRAND HIGH WITCH" UPON MY MIND, AND DOUBTLESS...COUNTLESS OTHERS!
GOOD August 4, 2007
Kenneth F. Bargatze Jr.
THANK YOU YOU GET GOOD MOVIES AND I AM HAPPY THAT ALL GET BY MAIL SMILE ;-)I LOVE THIS MOVIES
The Witches July 18, 2007
John Farr
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Roald Dahl, best-known for his "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory", also penned this dark little tale, which is brought to vivid cinematic life by gifted director Nicolas Roeg ("Walkabout", "Don't Look Now"). The late Jim Henson's distinctive talents are on display in some of the rodent and witch representations, and the film also boasts broadly amusing turns by Anjelica Huston (as The Grand High Witch) and Brits Brenda Blethyn and Rowan Atkinson in supporting roles.
 Entertaining adaptation but far from perfect DVD June 21, 2007
Susan K. Schooniver (Boulder, CO)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I enjoy Roald Dahl's books and was eager to see the film adaptation of THE WITCHES. The movie is well crafted with awesome special effects for the year it was made and Jim Henson's mouse puppetry is convincing. However I was disappointed by the DVD in several ways. First of all the sound was just awful especially with the Norwegian, British, and er High Grand Witch accents. To compound matters there is no close captioning of any kind on the disc so the viewer needs to be in a quiet room and listen very carefully. Needless to say the the DVD is also devoid of any special features.
As to the story I actually found the first part quite disturbing for a "family film". Luke's loving Norwegian grandmother tells him an awful story of a childhood friend who was imprisoned in a painting by a witch until her eventual "disappearance" in old age and the story is so realistically enacted it is really quite sad and chilling. Grandma also shows him the scar where her little finger was before an encounter with a witch and gives him some warning advice as to how to recognize the creatures. The next morning Luke and his grandmother learn Luke's parents have both been killed in an accident. Shortly after Grandma Helga comes down with a serious case of diabetes and she and Luke leave for a vacation at an English seaside village.
At their vacation hotel they run into a convention of witches and this more surreal part of the story is actually more light hearted and comical despite some intense scenes. The filmmakers give a happy contrived ending to the story unlike what Roald Dahl wrote in the novel. I usually strongly object to filmmakers altering such major plot points but Helga and Luke had suffered so much earlier in the film I was glad to see them experience some joy. Really young or really sensitive viewers will probably find this story too disturbing to be enjoyable.
Morticia rules! May 18, 2007
Robert
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Angelica is nothing like her suave alluring figure in the Addams Family, but plays this part to the hilt, as the high grand witch. It is her performace that makes it the sole reason to even watch this movie in the first place. She is something to behold in every gesture, and wild black covered gloved hand movement. Her dark bold features make her the natural as beauty in public, but inwardly hideous in true witch form. Jim Henson production moves the story along with magically transformed mice from children, and the calm bond between the main character child and his grandmother is very tolarable.
The assorted loose witches in the community here, are very cliche crone women, with reflected colored eyes and smiles galore. Finally a female escort to the grand high witch turns the other cheek, and helps the victims along. This actress is cute, and not a crone with a very likeable quirky laugh. However, the other witches do not follow her lead, and are driven by Angelica's high brow figure to send doom to all children. Great family entertainment for halloween, and not too scary for the real children out there.
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