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Synopsis: Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn and Goran Visnjic. The film score was composed by Alan Silvestri. Bullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who have always known they were different from each other. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical—their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But the invocation of the Owens' sorcery also carries a price—some call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that could take away all the O
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
PG-13
Year:
1998
104 min
Website
3,900 Views


Aunt Frances:
Even if we did bring him back, it wouldn't be Michael. It'd be something else. Something dark and unnatural.

Sally:
I don't care what he comes back as. As long as he comes back. Please do this for me. Please!

=== EXT AUNT'S HOUSE DAY===

(Sally comes aunt's house with her two chirdren)

Sally (V.O) :
This is only temporary, don't get too comfortable. There'll be no chocolate for breakfast. Homework will be done after dinner teeth and hair brushed before bed.

Sally:
And as for you two my children will never do magic. Ever.

===INT. BEDROOM MORNING===

Kylie:
Mom? It's time for us to go to school. Mommy. It's the same time as yesterday and the day before that, and the day before that. Out of bed, sleepyhead! I'm worried about Antonia. Do you know she puts on her mouse ears, she drives around town all liquored up. Naked! All right. I'll see you around.

Sally:
Come here, you! I'm sorry, baby. I'm just so tired

Kylie:
It's okay, Mommy.

Sally:
Gilly.

===INT BEDROOM NIGHT===

Gillian:
Sally.

Jimmy:
I was just thinking about you.

Gillian:
You are always thinking about me. Honey, I just have to go to the bathroom.

Jimmy:
Let's go together.

Gillian:
Jimmy, come on.

Jimmy:
I'm just kidding. Go.

===INT. BEDROOM NIGHT ===

(Gillian came home)

Sally:
I was really, really happy. Sally We were going to open a botanical shop. Michael'd get the ingredients. And I'd make the stuff. He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream. He couldn't stop eating it. I'm sure all this is really boring to you. But he really made me lough.

Sally:
Angelov? What kind of name is that?

Gillian:
Bulgarian.

Sally:
Bulgarian?

Gillian:
Huh, huh. He's from somewhere near Transylvania. He has this whole Dracula-cowboy thing about him. He's just so intense. I mean, he talks about our rerationship in terms of centuries. Sometimes we just stay up all night worshipping each other like bats. Thank God for Jet's belladonna or I'd never get any sleep.

Sally:
Why are you taking that stuff?

Gillian:
I'm not using it. I just give it to him every now and then. That's all.

Sally:
So you're drugging your boyfriend to get a little shut-eye? Doesn't that seem strange to you?

Gillian:
Maybe. And he's strong. So much stronger than me. He can survive the curse. Do you forgive our mother?

Sally:
Sometimes.

Gillian:
You'll never forgive yourself unless you get up and you get dressed and brush your teeth, because your breath stinks and you take care of those little girls.

Sally:
Yeah. You're right.

Gillian:
I love you.

Sally:
I love you too, Gilly-Bean.

===EXT. BOTANICAL SHOP===

A boy:
How's your wicked mommy doing?

Children:
Witch! Witch! You're a witch!

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Robin Swicord

Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter and film director. She is known for literary adaptions.In 2008, her screenplay for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden, for which she won a 2005 Satellite Award. Her other screenplay credits include Little Women, Practical Magic, Matilda, The Perez Family, and Shag. more…

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