Halloween Town - My grandma is a witch
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| German title | Halloween Town - My grandma is a witch |
| Original title | Halloweentown |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 81 minutes |
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| Director | Duwayne Dunham |
| script |
Paul Bernbaum , Jon Cooksey , Ali Matheson |
| production |
Ron Mitchell , Brian Pogue |
| music | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| camera | Michael Slovis |
| cut | Martin Nicholson |
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Halloween Town - My grandma is a witch (Original title: Halloweentown ) is an American fantasy comedy film from 1998 . Directed by Duwayne Dunham . Paul Bernbaum wrote the script with Jon Cooksey and Ali Matheson .
action
Marnie Piper and her mother Gwen discuss why Marnie is never allowed to attend the Halloween festival. Gwen rejects all kinds of magic and spooks, unlike her mother Agatha. It turns out that the women belong to a family of witches . Marnie's grandmother, Agatha Cromwell, plans to start her granddaughter's lessons as a witch. However, Gwen wants Marnie to grow up as a normal person and discusses it with Aggie.
Aggie leaves the house after an argument. Marnie and her siblings Dylan and Sophie sneak after their grandmother and take the bus to Halloweentown, a city where Halloween is celebrated every day and monsters, witches and ghosts live together peacefully. Aggie and the whole Cromwell family are considered powerful witches there. Aggie had tried to ask Gwen for help: Witches keep disappearing in Halloweentown, and only Mayor Kalabar is interested in them.
Aggie and Gwen, who followed their children, fall into the clutches of a demon who petrifies the population. Marnie and her siblings only have the chance to activate Aggie's magical scepter of Merlin and collect ingredients for it.
Marnie thinks that she has to face the fight alone as the oldest and faces the demon, who turns out to be a calabar, who wants to bring about the domination of the haunted figures over the real world. She has to stick the scepter into a giant pumpkin, but fails. Only when her grandmother, her mother, her sister, her brother and the goblin Luke help her, Kalabar is finally defeated and driven out of the city. In the end, Marnie is trained as a witch.
Reviews
H. Arthur Taussig described the film on Family Values as "light entertainment" .
Film-Dienst described the film as an "eventful fantasy fairy tale" thatentertained "with good actors and a funny story carefree" .
TV Spielfilm described the film as a "harmless, colorful TV fantasy adventure from Disney" .
Awards
Kimberly J. Brown was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 1999. Phillip Van Dyke was nominated for the YoungStar Award in 1999.
backgrounds
The film was shot in Portland and several other locations in Oregon . It first aired on US television on October 17, 1998.
The film was an in-house production of the Disney Channel , which later also included the musicals High School Musical , High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3 .
Sequels
- 2001: Halloweentown II
- 2004: Halloweentown III: Halloweentown High School
- 2006: Halloweentown IV - The Witches College
Web links
- Halloween Town - My grandma is a witch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Halloween Town - My grandma is a witch at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from uk.rottentomatoes.com ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 21, 2008
- ↑ Halloween Town - My grandma is a witch in the lexicon of international films , accessed on May 26, 2008
- ^ TV feature film , accessed on May 26, 2008
- ^ Filming locations for Halloweentown , accessed May 21, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Halloweentown , accessed May 21, 2008
