Practical Magic
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| Directed by | Griffin Dunne |
| Produced by | Denise Di Novi |
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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman |
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| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Andrew Dunn |
| Edited by | Elizabeth Kling |
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Village Roadshow Pictures
Di Novi Pictures |
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Warner Bros. Roadshow Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand) |
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Running time
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Box office | $68,097,643 |
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Photo by Suzanne Tenner
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |||||
| Released | October 6, 1998 (original pressing) | ||||
| Recorded | August 15–16, 1998, Abbey Road Studios (Michael Nyman tracks) |
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| Genre | Soundtrack, pop, minimalism, orchestral | ||||
| Length | 56:58 (Nyman pressing); 51:46 (Silvestri pressing) | ||||
| Language | English | ||||
| Label | Reprise/WEA | ||||
| Producer | Danny Bramson, Sandra Bullock | ||||
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Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, , Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn and Goran Visnjic. The film score was composed by Alan Silvestri.
Bullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who have always known they were different from each other. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical—their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But the invocation of the Owens' sorcery also carries a price—some call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that could take away all the Owens' lives.
Maria Owens, a young witch, is exiled to Maria's Island in Massachusetts with her unborn child for escaping her execution. When her lover does not come to rescue her, she desperately casts a spell upon herself to stop falling in love due to heartbreak, only to die soon after. The spell becomes a curse for several generations. Gillian and Sally Owens, two descendants of the Owens family, are taken in by their aunts Frances and Jet after the death of their parents. Sally is the more gifted of the two while Gillian's talents are more in charm and persuasion, and have been subject to ridicule during their youth. After witnessing their aunts cast a spell on a man for a woman who seems obsessed with having his love, Gillian decides to fall in love and Sally casts a true love spell to protect herself.
The sisters cast an oath to each other using blood from both of their hands and Gillian leaves for Los Angeles. Sally meets and marries Michael, a local apple salesman. They have two young daughters, Kylie and Antonia. One morning, after several blissful years of marriage, Sally hears the "death-watch beetle," and knows it is coming for her husband. Despite tearing up the floor in an effort to find and kill the beetle, Michael is killed by a truck during his early morning routine of taking apples to the local farmers market. Sally and her daughters return to the Owens home to live with the aunts, and realize that the aunts cast a spell so she could fall in love. Sally decides that she and her daughters will not perform magic. As Gillian begins a relationship with Jimmy Angelov in Orlando, Sally is devastated by her husband's death. Gillian feels that Sally needs her and drugs Jimmy to return to Massachusetts.
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