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The Witches
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
1990 · Directed by Nicolas Roeg · 91 min · Fantasy · Family · Horror · 8 frames
Tagline
Saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy they've turned into a mouse!
Crew
- Screenplay: Allan Scott
- Cinematography: Harvey Harrison
- Edited by: Tony Lawson
- Music: Stanley Myers
- Production design: Andrew Sanders
- Produced by: Mark Shivas
Cast
- Jasen Fisher as Luke Eveshim
- Mai Zetterling as Helga Eveshim
- Anjelica Huston as Miss Eva Ernst
- Charlie Potter as Bruno Jenkins
- Rowan Atkinson as Mr Stringer
- Bill Paterson as Mr Jenkins
- Brenda Blethyn as Mrs Jenkins
- Jane Horrocks as Miss Irvine
- Nora Connolly as Beatrice
- Rose English as Dora
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Jim Henson Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $11,000,000
- Box office: $15,400,000
- Themes: hotel, witch, based on novel or book, grandparent grandchild relationship, mouse, transformation, tree house, halloween, based on children's book, seaside
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