Griffin Dunne directs Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Aidan Quinn in this supernatural fantasy drama where two ‘witch’ raised sisters are reunited.

At times this feels very much like an adaptation of a book that works best as a book. Often though Practical Magic bares the scars of reshoots, a rushed edit and studio uncertainty. There are so many extraneous characters. It feels like the stellar Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing get lost in the shuffle… even Nicole is sidelined in the second half. Is it a romance? Is it a PG horror? A comedy? Feels like a pilot for a spooky Gilmore Girls. Fair to say I was never the intended audience for this but did it have to be so all over the shop? I just never settled into this.

5

Perfect Double Bill: Forces Of Nature (1999)

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