Trailer
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The Witches (1990)

Runtime
1hr 31mins
Directed by
Nicolas Roeg
Featuring
Anjelica Huston,
Mai Zetterling,
Rowan Atkinson,
Jane Horrocks
Body

Anjelica Huston stars in this fantasy based on a Roald Dahl book about a little boy and his kindly grandmother thwarting a coven of witches who want to rid Britain of children by turning them into mice.

Vacationing at a seaside hotel with his grandmother, a young boy discovers that a convention of witches is also staying there and finds out about the evil plans of their Grand High Witch (Huston). Jim Henson devised the creature effects in his last film

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