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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
3,927 Views


Aunt Frances:
When we put that spell on you for Michael we had to bind it with molasses just to get your legs to open up.

Gillian:
You self-centered shrew!

Aunt Jet:
Igrate!

Gillian:
Witch!

===INT. BEDROOM MIDNIGHT ===

Aunt Frances:
A lesson they must learn on their own.

Aunt Jet:
What about the little ones?

Aunt Frances:
Not to worry, Jetty. A good piece of Maria's hanging rope will protect them.

Aunt Jet:
You must promise us you won't take them off. Not until we come home.

Aunt Frances:
We'll only be gone a short while.

Aunt Jet:
Do you hear us? Promise?

===INT. PORCH===

Sally:
It was a very personal letter.

Gary Hallet:
Yes, ma'am, it was.

Gillian:
Hello, there.

Gary Hallet:
I'm not going to beat around the bush. I need to find your boyfriend, James Angelvo.

Gillian:
I don't know where he is. I wouldn't exactly call him my boyfriend. He's more like a bug mistake.

Gary Hallet:
Is that his handiwork there?

Gillian:
If a man hits me, he only does it once. Can I take a peek at your

===INT. DOOR MORNING ===

Antonia:
you came for breakfast.

Gary Hallet:
I just came to talk to your mom.

Antonia:
Great! She's having pancakes, too. Do you have a gun? Can I see it? (To Sally) He's here for breakfast.

Gary Hallet:
I have a question or two.

=== INT. KITCHEN MORNING ===

Antonia:
He's going to stay!

Gillian:
Oh, good! Good work. Now go back out there and keep them away from here.

===INT. POACH MORNING ===

Sally:
Berradonna. It's a sedative. People put it in their tea to relax, calm their nerves.

Gary Hallet:
Some people also use it as a poison.

Sally:
Witch people.

Gary Hallet:
Witch people. Witches.

Sally:
I guess you found me out, huh?

Gary Hallet:
Yes, I did.

Sally:
You should come here on Halloween. You'd really see something. We all jump off the roof and fly. We kill our husband too. Or is that outside your jurisdiction?

Gary Hallet:
Do you have any idea how strange this all sounds to me? I got people telling me you're here cooking up placenta bars you're into devil worship.

Sally:
No, there's no devil in the craft.

Gary Hallet:
So what kind of a craft do you do?

Sally:
Do I do? I manufacture bath oils and soaps and hand lotions and shampoo. And the aunts .. they like to meddle in people's love lives. Magic isn't just spells and potions. Your badge , it's just a star, Just another symble. Your talisman. It can't stop ciminals in their tracks, can it? It has power because you believe it does. Wish you could believe in me.

Gary Hallet:
Miss Owens, are you hiding James Angelov?

Sally:
Not in this house.

Gary Hallet:
Did you or your sister kill James Angelov?

Sally:
Oh, Yeah. Couple of times.

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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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