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Practical Magic (1998)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:11
Rotten:42
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Comedy, romance, and humor mix with unsatisfying results.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This romantic comedy, which is based on Alice Hoffman's best-selling novel, introduces the Owens sisters (Bullock and Kidman), who try to use their hereditary gift of witchcraft to help them find... This romantic comedy, which is based on Alice Hoffman's best-selling novel, introduces the Owens sisters (Bullock and Kidman), who try to use their hereditary gift of witchcraft to help them find love. Collector's Edition includes documentary featuring behind the scenes interviews with the filmmakers and stars. [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quinn, Goran Visnjic
Director: Griffin Dunne
Director: Griffin Dunne
Screenwriter: Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks
Producer: Denise Di Novi
Composer: Alan Silvestri
Reviews for Practical Magic
Nunca termina por definir si se trata de una historia de amor, de horror o una comedia
Although I enjoyed portions of the movie, I can't wholeheartedly recommend something with such an unfortunate and dissatisfying conclusion!
If nothing else, the screenwriters deserve recognition for the nerve it took to employ what must be the most outrageously lazy writer's device in the history of cinema.
A muddled melange of genres that fails to come up with a distinct identity.
The movie doesn't seem sure what tone to adopt, veering uncertainly from horror to laughs to romance.
A mediocre mishmash of female-bonding comedy, schmaltzy romance and blessedly brief horror about latter-day witchcraft!
A witch comedy so slapdash, plodding, and muddled it seems to have had a hex put on it.
Has something to annoy just about everyone: feminists of either gender, Wiccans, or just people expecting a good movie.
A disappointing brew of slick commercial moviemaking and old-fashioned romantic fantasy!
A Halloween movie with amorous themes but is such a hodgepodge that it serves as neither an effective, Charles -Addams- style spoof of the supernatural genre nor a convincing romantic comedy.
Practical Magic, a promising but muddled comedy about sibling witches with, perhaps inevitably, some unthreatening feminism thrown into the mix.
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