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Synopsis: Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn and Goran Visnjic. The film score was composed by Alan Silvestri. Bullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who have always known they were different from each other. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical—their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But the invocation of the Owens' sorcery also carries a price—some call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that could take away all the O
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
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PG-13
Year:
1998
104 min
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Aunt Frances:
Maria's blood. Now! Push her in.

Sally:
I love you, Gillian.

Woman A:
We did it.

Aunt Frances:
Hands up. ladies. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Woman C:
I wonder if that would work on my ex-husband?

Woman A:
Come on, ladies, let's clean house!

Sally:
Through kitchen. Follow me.

Woman A:
Well done.

Sally:
Sweep him to the roses.

===EXT. GARDEN DAY===

Gillian:
Hey! There's something for you.

Sally:
From Arizona.

Sally (V.O.):
"Dear Miss Owens: Any further investigations. Office hereby concluded James Angelvo's cause of death was accidental. Jewely in ashes of structure provided positive indentification. Sincerely, Gary Hallet special investigator."

Gillian:
I don't think he's in there, Sal.

Sally:
What would you do, Gilly?

Gillian:
What wouldn't I do for the right guy?

(Gary Hallet comes and kisses Sally.)

===EXT. HOUSE HELOWEEN NIGHT===

Sally (V.O.):
Can love travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria's curse? I'd like to think so. There're some things I know for certain. Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Plant lavender for luck. And fall in love whenever you can.

THE HAPPY END...

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Robin Swicord

Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter and film director. She is known for literary adaptions.In 2008, her screenplay for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden, for which she won a 2005 Satellite Award. Her other screenplay credits include Little Women, Practical Magic, Matilda, The Perez Family, and Shag. more…

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