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7.0While 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.
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
Themes
- hotel
- witch
- based on novel or book
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- mouse
- transformation
- tree house
- based on children's book
- seaside
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Nicolas Roeg
- Screenplay by
- Allan Scott
- Based on
- The Witches , by Roald Dahl
- Produced by
- Mark Shivas
- Starring
- Anjelica Huston Mai Zetterling
- Cinematography
- Harvey Harrison
- Edited by
- Tony Lawson
- Music by
- Stanley Myers
- Production companies
- Lorimar Film Entertainment Jim Henson Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release dates
- May 25, 1990 ( 1990-05-25 ) (United Kingdom) August 24, 1990 ( 1990-08-24 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $11 million
- Box office
- $15.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 436312
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- publication date
- 1990-06-28
- title
- The Witches
- review score
- 78/100
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The Witches is a 1990 dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Nicolas Roeg from a screenplay by Allan Scott and based on Roald Dahl's novel of the same name. The film stars Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling and concerns evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and follows an orphaned boy and his grandmother, who must find a way to foil their plot of ridding the world of children.
It is the last film project executive producer Jim Henson worked on before his death, with Jim Henson Productions co-producing the film and Jim Henson's Creature Shop designing and building the prosthetics for the titular characters and animatronic rats and mice that were used interchangeably with real mice. Filming took place in Norway and England from April to August of 1988. The film's release was delayed following the dissolution of its theatrical distributor Lorimar Film Entertainment.