Mind-boggling miscalculations strangle this adaptation of Alice Hoffman's popular novel before it can find its feet. Orphans Gillian and Sally Owens (Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock) are benevolent witches, the fourth generation of Owens women who cast spells and brew up love philters on the kitchen stove. Raised by deeply eccentric aunties Frances and Jet (Stockard Channing, Diane Wiest) in the shadow of the family curse -- any man who loves them is doomed -- the girls attempt to dodge cruel fate in wildly different ways. Serious brunette Sally hides beneath a cloak of normality: She gets married, starts a family and keeps a tidy house, until the click of a deathwatch...
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins