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Witches

The Witches

1h 31m

Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1990 • United States
Starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher

Nicolas Roeg brought Roald Dahl’s deliciously dark children’s story to the screen with its wit, imagination, and sinister undercurrents fully intact. Anjelica Huston delivers a fabulously camp performance as an evil sorceress who plans to turn all of England’s children into mice, unless a young boy can stop her. The dazzling puppet effects—including the animatronic mice and Huston’s hideously haggish hidden face—are courtesy of producer Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

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