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The Witches(Movie, 1990)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 31min | Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Kids & Family, Mystery
The WitchesRating: 3.5/5 (with 545545 votes)
The Witches is a 1990 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Nicolas Roeg from a screenplay by Allan Scott, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling. The plot features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and follows a boy and his grandmother, who must find a way to foil their plans of turning children into mice. The Witches was the last film project executive producer Jim Henson worked on before his death, with Jim Henson Productions co-producing the film and Jim Henson's Creature Shop designing and building the prosthetics for the witches and animatronic rats and mice that were used interchangeably with real mice. The Witches was released in Orlando, Florida, and Sacramento, California, on February 16, 1990, and in the United States on August 24, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Although Dahl disliked the film for its ending's differing from his source material, it received positive reviews from critics and it developed a cult ... ()
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About The Witches

A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

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Additional Information

Shot in: Bergen
Plays in: Norway
Based on the work of: Roald Dahl ("The Witches")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 26 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Basque (EU), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/28/1990 (World premiere: 05/25/1990)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Screenwriter: Allan Scott
Film Editor: Tony Lawson
Director of Photography: Harvey Harrison
Composer: Stanley Myers
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La maldición de las brujas"
"Roald Dahl's, The Witches"
"Bosorky"

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Other movies with this title: The Witches (GB, 1966), The Witches (FR/IT, 1967)

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