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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:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 837
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 92
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
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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Quite Good September 22, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another film that had been neglected by audencies and critics alike during its run in the theaters(which I don't understand why!?). This classic film has become a somewhat of a favorite film made for a limited audience of families with children over the age of 8 but not older than 12. This film is definately a classic film because we find a well thought out script(along with the book), good acting by all who were involved. Therefore, there comes an entertaining film for the entire family to enjoy during an hour and half together.
Really good kids movie/good for adults too September 13, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked this movie a lot as a kid and bought it for my daughter for her 7th birthday. She thought is was great. It's got just the right amount of humor, scary, and gross-out-factor that kids of this age love. The best part is it's a movie that the adults can actually enjoy also.
Childhood goodie :-) July 12, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first saw this movie when I was like 12 years old and even though it thoroughly freaked me out, I loved it nonetheless. I am and have always been an avid Roald Dahl fan so that helped out as well. Definitely see this movie if you have read the book (although it's a bit different). You'll really enjoy how the characters are projected from words to real live people...or in this case, witches.
 Lame June 20, 2005
1 out of 26 found this review helpful
Lame attempt at making a Halloween show. Love, love, love Angelica Houston in anything, but this was beneath her.
QUIRKY, A BIT SCARY... June 17, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I didn't know the first time that I watched this film that it was written by Roald Dahl who also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but it sure made sense. It has that same sort of quirky black humor and mild creepiness that that more famous story has. The story concerns a boy named Luke whose parents are killed in an accident and he goes to live with his grandmother Helga. Early on there is a rather terrifying encounter with a witch and Luke's grandmother certainly knows a thing or two about them.
Helga decides to take Luke on a holiday to a posh British hotel where Luke makes friends with another boy named Bruno who has some rather snooty and preoccupied parents. Sharing the hotel is group of women there for a convention of the society for the prevention of cruelty towards children, or something to that effect. In reality, they are a coven of very ugly witches who wear masks to make themselves look human. Indeed the site of these hairless, huge nosed, witches without their masks may not be for very little ones as the makeup is very effective and chilling. The witches are led by their Grand High Witch played deliciously over-the-top by Angelica Huston. In reality the group is planning to turn all the children of England into mice with a magic potion.
The boys catch wind of the plan and find themselves turned into mice. But they can still think and talk and eventually get back to Luke's Grandmother where they hatch a plot to turn the tables on the witches, setting the stage for a rather gruesome, but humporous climax. Without the use of any sort of Modern CGI the effects and makeup team did a very good job with the witches and the transformations into mice...especially when the characters were in mid-transformation. Rowan Atkinson is along to add some comedy as the hotel's restaurant manager.
Like Willy Wonka, it's a family film with some possible cautions for very young kids who may possibly be frightened by the Witches. A fun film!
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