Magical sisters

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Movie
German title Magical sisters
Original title Practical Magic
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Griffin Dunne
script Alice Hoffman (novel),
Robin Swicord ,
Akiva Goldsman ,
Adam Brooks
production Denise Di Novi ,
Robin Swicord
music Alan Silvestri
camera Andrew Dunn
cut Elizabeth Kling
occupation

Practical Magic (original title Practical Magic ) is an American fantasy - comedy directed by Griffin Dunne in 1998. The film opened on 17 December 1998 in the German cinemas.

In the film, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play two witches. It is based on the book Im Hexenhaus ( Practical Magic ) by Alice Hoffman and is the first film adaptation of one of her works.

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In 1690 Maria Owens was exiled to an island in New England for mastering white magic . Maria expected to be saved from her exile by her beloved, whom she was pregnant with. When she realized that he was never going to come, she put a curse on herself to never fall in love again. The curse, like the gift of magic, was passed on to the unborn child. Any man who fell in love with a woman named Owens from then on died an unnatural death.

When Sally and Gillian's father dies one day and their mother dies of a broken heart, they come to the house of their aunts Frances and Bridget, who make their living brewing love potions. One day when her nieces watch her doing it, Sally decides that she never wants to fall in love and casts a spell to guarantee it. This shows how different the sisters are, because in the same situation Gillian wishes that she would fall in love very quickly. She does that too and soon leaves the “witch's house” built by her ancestor Maria to move from town to town and from man to man.

Sally, on the other hand, still lives with her aunts, who finally cast a love spell without her knowledge to make her happy. Sally gets married and has two children, Kylie and Antonia. The residents of the city, who previously feared and hated her, accept her and Sally is happy, even if she had to give up magic for it. But one day her husband dies and Sally moves back with her children to the aunts, but continues to suppress her supernatural talent.

When Gillian is beaten by her boyfriend Jimmy Angelov, she calls Sally through telepathy , who immediately sets off to save her. But Jimmy takes the sisters hostage, but is poisoned by them and dies. In order not to have to go to prison, they decide to bring him back to life with a magic spell. However, this attempt fails and they kill him again. This time they bury the corpse in the garden, but Jimmy's ghost is still at work.

Detective Gary Hallet, who is looking for Jimmy to arrest him for murder, shows up at the Owens house. It takes Sally's heart by storm, because it seems to be the answer to her magic spell, which she used to cast herself in her childhood. But the spirit of Jimmy Angelov stands between them in the truest sense of the word, because he is not dead, but trapped in purgatory. Eventually he takes possession of Gillian, and Sally can only fight him by accepting her considerable supernatural talent and convening a joint "witch circle" with other women.

Jimmy's spirit can be driven away and Mary's curse seems to have been broken through the reconciliation with the villagers, so that nothing stands in the way of Sally and Gary Hallet's love.

Locations

The film was shot exclusively in Washington State . Filming locations were Coupeville on Whidbey Island and Friday Harbor on San Juan Island , the second largest of the San Juan Islands . The house in which the witches live with their aunts was specially built by Robin Standefer in San Juan National Park on San Juan Island and immediately demolished after filming.

Reviews

new-video.de: “Entertaining entertainment, quite an imaginative story, played by experienced mimes. No more and no less."

Stuttgarter Zeitung on the Internet, Thomas Rehmet: “Thanks to the top-class cast and an entertaining soundtrack u. a. With Steve Nicks, however, the enchanting sisters should not only attract amateur witches to the cinemas. "

TV feature film 26/1998: "Unbalanced mixture of comedy, horror, fateful drama and love story."

Der Spiegel 51/1998: “All of this is constructed in a very foolish way and was probably created with the intention of mixing esotericism and sex with kitsch and horror in an effective way for the public. But Hollywood's witchy monkey doesn't work here: this film is lazy magic. "

Awards (selection)

The film was nominated in four categories for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award in 1999, Stockard Channing received the award for Best Supporting Actress . Evan Rachel Wood and Camilla Belle were both nominated for the Young Artist Award .

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Trivia

The film scene in which Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest get drunk and insult each other is not staged. The four were actually drunk, because Nicole Kidman had brought a bottle of tequila to the filming to make the scene look more realistic.

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