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Actor: Dianne Wiest, Goran Visnjic, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard ChanningBrand: WEA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Practical Magic (Snap Case Packaging)
Movie Review: Great movie about the bonds of womanhood.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a light harted romantic comedy on the surface. However, after watching it so many times that I could recite the lines by heart, I think there is much more to this film than meets the eye. Personally, I have studied acting and film, and I am also a writer, so from my personal experience with these things---I feel confident in saying this film is so much more than chick lit! The book by Alice Hoffman is considered chic lit, however it and this movie speaks more deeply to the way women treat one another. How judgemental we women actually are of each other, take the word witch out of it and replace it with anyother not so nice word, and women are much more likely to call each other that than men are!
The extent to which Kidman goes with her possessed scene, most of which was cut from the film, but we wouldn't know that if we didn't watch the directors comentaries and the behind the scenes portions. The looks which Aidan Quinn gives Sandra and their interactions...ignore the words they are speaking...the body language, that is where the acting is. Most people sit back and watch a movie and critique actors performances, never really understanding how hard it is to actually act as if you're not acting! The performances in this movie are amazing.
Most men aren't going to "get" this movie since it really addresses the bonds of sisterhood, and of female bonds in general. The women of the town in the movie act the way most women act towards each other, but the underlying message in the movie is to women, and how they should not compete, bicker, judge and demoralize each other, but to lift each other up, to give each other strength of voice, to join together in the bonds of womanhood. Look at the way the women of the town outcast Sally, question her mothering skills, and involve their children in outcasting Sally's girls... This type of thing happens in real life especially in school settings (anyone on the PTA?), where one woman is a little different, maybe she is not married but lives with the father of her children, or maybe she is a sigle parent, maybe she looks different, whatever the difference is, she is likely to be outcasted by the group of "normal" mothers. It is horrible the way women treat each other, and this movie is a testament to what great things women can do if they just join together, rather than judging each other. Sure in the end the women join together to get rid of the bad boyfriend, but that is not the real ending, the ending is that there are no more stones being thrown, no more names being called, everyone embraces the "witches" as good even though they are different. The women of the town let go of the "normal" ideals, and accept the Owens women as true women of the town.
Granted if some poor husband or boyfriend has to sit through this movie, he is not as likely to fall asleep through it as he would during something like, The Way We Were :)... It is light enough for a guy to sit through, though it doesn't have any nudity or enough action in it to keep him really that interested. But as women we can walk away from this movie with a different point of view of the other women around us. We can learn from this movie to tolorate each others differences, and to stop judging. We can learn to laugh with each other, rather than to whisper behind each others backs. We can learn to love one another. So don't just watch the movie for entertainment value, watch it for the real message that is in it, and learn something about yourself.
Summary of Practical Magic (Snap Case Packaging)
If a broom falls, company is due. When a circle rings the moon, trouble looms, Should you misplace your broom, sorry; a hand vac can't be used in an exorcism rite. Fun and excitement abound in the Owens family of wily witches. One problem, though: the men the Owens women fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman bring a sparkling screen magic to Practical Magic, adapted from Alice Hoffman's bestseller and directed by Griffin Dunne (Addicted to Love). They play Sally and Gillian Owens, sisters hexed by a centuries -old curse...and coping with a witches brew of events involving a possible love match (Aidan Quinn) for one, a zombie (Goran Visnjic) for the other and a need to resume the age-old witchcraft taught by two doting Owens aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest). Sit for a spell and enjoy.Actor Griffin Dunne improves a bit on his first film as a director, Addicted to Love, with this drama-comedy about a family of witches. Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock play spell-casting sisters of different temperaments: the former is a high-living, free-spirited sort, while Bullock's character is a homebody who can't get around a family curse that kills the men in their lives. A widowed single mom, Bullock gets into a jam with an abusive Bulgarian (Goran Visnjic) and is helped out by her sibling, but the result brings a good-looking, warm, inquisitive cop (Aidan Quinn) into their lives. The film has a variety of tonal changes--cute, scary, glum--that Dunne can't always effectively juggle. But the female-centric, celebratory nature of the film (the fantasies, the sharing, the witchy bonds) is infectious, and supporting roles by Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing as Kidman and Bullock's magical aunts are a lot of fun. --Tom Keogh
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