Practical Magic

 Practical Magic 1998

• Director: Griffin Dunne
• Based on a book by Alice Hoffman
• Cast: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Weist, Goran Visnjic, Aiden Quinn, Evan Rachel Wood, Margo Martindale, Chloe Webb
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Sandra Bullock – Gravity, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Infamous, The House by the Lake, Crash, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 28 Days, A Time to Kill, While You Were Sleeping, Speed
• Nicole Kidman – Destroyer, Top of the Lake, Genius, Queen if the Desert, Strangerland, Before I Go to Sleep, The Railway Man, Rabbit Hole, Nine, Australia, Margot at the Wedding, Fur, The Interpreter, Cold Mountain, The Human Stain, Dogville, The Hours, Birthday Girl, Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut, Billy Bathgate
• Stockard Channing – Sparkle, Out of Practice, Bright Young Things, First Wives’ Club, Moll Flanders, Edie & Pen, Smoke, Six Degrees of Separation, Grease
• Dianne Weist – Rabbit Hole, Dan in Real Life, I Am Sam, The Birdcage, Edward Scissorhands, Footloose
• Goran Visnjic – Doctor Who
• Aiden Quinn – Elle s’appellait Sarah, Nine Lives, Music of the Heart, Looking for Richard, Stars Fell on Henrietta, Frankenstein, Benny and Joon, Desperately Seeking Susan
• Evan Rachel Wood – Across the Universe
• Margo Martindale – August Osage County, Beautiful Creatures, Management, Paris je t’aime, Million Dollar Baby, The Human Stain, The Hours, 28 Days, Homicide Life on the Street, Dead Man Walking, Lorenzo’s Oil
• Chloe Webb – Sid and Nancy
• Why? The cast
• Seen: Once before. Now 31 October 2020. Happy Halloween!      

       The women of the Owens family all have magic but the men who love them are cursed with the fate of dying an early death.

       Gillian (Kidman) leaves home for amorous adventures. Her sister Sally (Bullock) marries a local boy after a tiny love enchantment is cast by the sisters’ aunts (Channing and Weist). She has two daughters and is deliriously happy with her perfect, normal life.

       Until…

       It’s silly, funny, absurd but enjoyable fluff. 

3* of 5