Practical Magic is a 1998 American fantasy film directed by
Griffin Dunne-Personal life:Dunne was born Thomas Griffin Dunne in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims and his father was a producer, writer, and actor...
and starring
Sandra BullockSandra Annette Bullock is an Academy Award winning American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. She continued with films such as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House,...
and
Nicole KidmanNicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
as witches who carry on a family legacy of witchcraft and tragedy. The film is based on a book of the same name by
Alice HoffmanAlice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name...
. The original music score was composed by
Alan SilvestriAlan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer and conductor.-Career:Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone , the Back to the Future trilogy , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Contact ,...
.
Plot
The Craft has been passed down through generations to the Owens women. The story concerns sisters Frances (
Stockard ChanningStockard Channing is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role as Ouisa Kittredge in the play Six Degrees of Separation and its...
) and Jet (
Dianne WiestDianne Wiest is an American actress. She has had a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award.-Early life:...
), and their orphaned nieces Gillian (
Nicole KidmanNicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
) and Sally (
Sandra BullockSandra Annette Bullock is an Academy Award winning American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. She continued with films such as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House,...
). The Owens family is cursed: if an Owens woman finds true love with a man, he will die tragically, as was the case with the father of Gillian and Sally, whose death also brought on their mother's death "from a broken heart". The girls move in with Frances and Jet and the townspeople treat the family as outsiders, for they fear the women are witches. Sally is the more gifted of the two. Gillian's talents are more in charm and persuasion. After witnessing their aunts cast a spell on a man for a woman who seems obsessed with having his love, Gillian remarks she can't wait to fall in love. Sally, seeing the woman's pain at not having the man love her, casts a true love spell to protect herself. She dreams up a series of odd traits for the man of her dreams, confident no real man could ever be like the man in her spell, preventing her from ever falling in love. A number of qualities that no real person could possibly have: extraordinary kindness, the ability to ride a horse backwards and flip pancakes, the favorite shape of a star, and one green eye and one blue eye.
The sisters grow up, and Gillian runs away as she is impatient with small-town life. Packing her bags and leaving at night, they cast a binding oath to each other using blood from both of their hands and then mixing the blood by clasping hands. Sally becomes lonely without Gillian, who is constantly moving about and shuffling through men. While working in the garden, Sally hears a bell tolling and rushes into town. In town, a man named Michael (
Mark Feuerstein-Career:Feuerstein got his break-through on television as a recurring character on the daytime soap opera Loving. When director Nancy Meyers was casting What Women Want, her daughter recognized Feuerstein from Practical Magic and insisted that her mother cast him...
) meets her in the street with a passionate kiss. A letter is penned to Gillian, revealing that three years have passed since Sally wed Michael. Sally is happier than ever now and has two daughters, Kylie (
Evan Rachel WoodEvan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again...
) and Antonia (Alexandra Artrip). It is hinted that Kylie is much like Gillian (even having red hair like her), saying she can't wait to fall in love just like Gillian did at her age. When Michael falls victim to the curse and dies, Sally and her daughters return to the Owens home to live with the aunts. Sally finds out the aunts cast a spell to give her a little push so she could fall in love, but never expected her to really and truly love him. Sally tearfully begs them to bring Michael back, but the aunts refuse, saying he'll come back as something "dark and unnatural". Sally swears off magic because the magical curses have ruined her life, and she tells the aunts that her daughters will not do magic.
Meanwhile, Gillian is partying. She is seen dancing against multiple men without thinking anything of it. As she says in a letter, there is one man named Jimmy Angelov (
Goran VišnjićGoran Višnjić is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions. He is best known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač in the hit television series ER...
), whom she is especially interested in. Meanwhile, Sally is mourning and refusing to leave her bed, preferring to sleep for a while. Gillian feels that Sally needs her, so she drugs Jimmy, who is now her boyfriend, in order to go visit her. Sally tells Gillian everything that she feels and Gillian in turn tells her about Jimmy. It is learned that Sally and Michael were going to open their own botanical shop, Verbena. When Sally awakens in the morning, Gillian is gone. Later that day, Sally is working in her shop. Kylie and Antonia come to the shop and get into an altercation with the children of the men and women who threw rocks at them when they were young. Kylie curses them with chicken pox. Sally tells her they don't cast or play with people's lives, but Kylie walks off angrily with Antonia in tow, saying that their mother has power but refuses to use it.
When Jimmy becomes abusive, Gillian calls Sally for help. Sally goes to her, but Jimmy kidnaps both of them. Jimmy, pointing a gun to Gillian's head, commands Sally to drive his car. During the drive, Jimmy says he is really into sisters. Sally puts belladonna into Jimmy's tequila to knock him out, but she uses too much and accidentally kills him. The panicked sisters drive back to their aunts' house and attempt to resurrect him using the forbidden spell from their aunts' book of spells. His body becomes alive and Jimmy immediately attempts to kill Gillian because he believes she is lying about loving him. Sally kills him again, and the sisters bury his body in the garden of the Owens home, where they hope nobody will notice. However, even though his body was in the earth, his spirit remained above ready to haunt them. Sally and Gillian are unaware of his spirit until one night, while drinking tequila with the aunts, Gillian sees that the bottle they are drinking from is the same bottle they had used to poison him. When Gillian asks from where the bottle came, the aunts drunkenly sing that they found it on the porch. Sally's and Gillian's horrified faces made the aunts realize that their nieces weren't telling them something, and they decide to leave for a short time. The next morning Kylie tells them she sees a man under the rosebush and won't fetch the mint from the garden that Sally requests until he leaves. Sally and Gillian can't see him, but they know his spirit must be there. Gillian rushes outside and rips the roses off the vines with her bare hands. Sally comes out to stop her and they see Jimmy's cowboy boots poking out of the ground. As Sally and Gillian stare at them, the boots sink back into the ground. Sally tells Gillian to tell the aunts the whole story and Antonia tells them they're gone, and had left the message to "clean up your own mess."
A State Investigator named Gary Hallett (
Aidan Quinn-Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
) arrives in town looking for Jimmy. Gillian comes up with a perfect story, but Gary targets Sally and manages to eventually crack her. Gillian enlists Kylie and Antonia's help to create a potion that will banish Gary. While creating it, Kylie reveals that she has her mother's notebook on which Sally had written all the qualities her true love would have. They had invited Gary for breakfast, and after Sally's children witness him flip pancakes with remarkable skill, they realize that he may be the man Sally had dreamt of. They had put the potion in the pancake syrup, but right before Gary pours it onto his pancakes, the girls grab it and throw it into the ocean. Gillian, Sally, and Gary run after them, taken aback by this strange and sudden action, but their attention is caught by a toad that regurgitates Jimmy Angelov's ring. Gillian claims it's hers, but Gary knows something is going on that the sisters aren't telling him. He says they had better get themselves a good lawyer and leaves.
Sally decides to tell Gary everything. She runs into town and finds him, and he takes her into his hotel room to record her testimony. Again, Sally sees the letter she had once written Gillian, and realizes he must have read it more times than he had let on. Unable to deny their feelings for each other, they kiss passionately. Looking into his eyes, Sally sees that he has one green eye, one blue. Afraid of going any further, and realizing that the only reason he was there was the spell she had cast long ago, Sally leaves.
When she gets home, Sally finds that Jimmy's spirit has possessed Gillian's body. Gary, who had followed her, sees Jimmy's spirit emerge. Jimmy attempts to grab Gary's heart, but his star-shaped badge saves him and temporarily banishes the spirit. Later, Sally tells Gary of her spell, saying that the only reason he's here is because of that spell and the feelings they have for each other aren't real. Gary replies that curses are only true if you believe in them and he doesn't. He also says that he wished for her, too. He decides to leave town without arresting Sally.
Jimmy possesses Gillian again. Sally goes back inside to console her. They hug, but Jimmy (as Gillian) begins to lick her saying he's feeling "very into sisters right now." The aunts return; they decide that in order to dispel Jimmy, a coven needs to be formed of 9 women. Sally realizes she must embrace magic to save her sister. She is also forced to ask the aid of townswomen who had feared and excluded her and Gillian. The women come, out of curiosity and a desire to help. The exorcism is a success due to the strong bond between the two sisters. Jimmy's spirit is dispelled and the 300-year-old curse of the Owens women is ended when Sally repeats the spell that was mentioned as Gillian first left, while clasping their hands to mix each other's blood once more. The spell is lifted and Gillian returns.
Sally receives a letter from Gary telling her that she and her sister are cleared of any suspicion of wrongdoing in Jimmy's case. Gary eventually returns to the town to be with Sally. The Owens women, daughters and all, celebrate All Hallow's Eve dressed up in
stereotypicalA stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings...
witch costumes, but they are embraced and welcomed by the townsfolk.
Cast
- Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock is an Academy Award winning American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. She continued with films such as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House,...
as Sally Owens, a witch who becomes widowed after the Owens’ curse kills her husband.
- Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
as Gillian Owens, sister of Sally, who grows bored with small town life and becomes the victim of an abusive relationship.
- Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role as Ouisa Kittredge in the play Six Degrees of Separation and its...
as Aunt Frances Owens, aunt of Sally and Gillian, who tends to be more aloof and fun-loving She also loves to meddle in people's love lives.
- Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has had a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award.-Early life:...
as Aunt Bridget 'Jet' Owens, aunt of Sally and Gillian, who tends to be more tenderhearted and quiet.
- Caprice Benedetti
Caprice Benedetti is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the 2002 science fiction movie Timequest in which she played Jacqueline Kennedy...
as Maria Owens, matriarch of the Owens clan.
- Goran Višnjić
Goran Višnjić is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions. He is best known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač in the hit television series ER...
as James 'Jimmy' Angelov, boyfriend of Gillian, who becomes abusive and kidnaps the sisters.
- Aidan Quinn
-Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
as Officer Gary Hallet, a policeman who investigates Sally and Gillian in the murder and falls in love with Sally.
- Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again...
as Kylie Owens, daughter of Sally Owens, who lives with her mom and aunts after the death her father, Michael Owens. she looks and acts a lot like her aunt Gillian.
- Alexandra Artrip as Antonia Owens, daughter of Sally Owens, who lives with her mom and aunts after the death her father, Michael Owens.
- Mark Feuerstein
-Career:Feuerstein got his break-through on television as a recurring character on the daytime soap opera Loving. When director Nancy Meyers was casting What Women Want, her daughter recognized Feuerstein from Practical Magic and insisted that her mother cast him...
as Michael, husband of Sally Owens, and father of Kylie and Antonia Owens. He is a victim of the "Owens Curse", which resulted in his death.
- Lora Anne Criswell as young Gillian Owens.
- Camilla Belle
Camilla Belle is an American actress. Her works include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, When a Stranger Calls, 10,000 BC, The Quiet, Push and Speedy Singhs.- Early life :...
as young Sally Owens.
- Chloe Webb
Chloe Webb is an American actress.Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. Her New York theater debut was in the original cast of the long-running musical satire Forbidden Broadway...
as Carla.
- Martha Gehman
Martha Gehman is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Ophelia in the 1985 cult classic The Legend of Billie Jean.She also had supporting roles in The Flamingo Kid and Threesome....
as Patty.
Production
Some of the movie was filmed on an artificial set in California. Producers said the house was a big part of the depiction of the Owens' culture, so they knew they had to build a house to accurately depict this. They built it on
San Juan IslandSan Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km² and a population of 6,822 as of the 2000 census....
, Washington. They brought much of the set from California and placed it inside the house, but it still took almost a year to perfect the image of the house and the interior. The house used is owned by the Sundstrom Family and is located on San Juan Valley Road,
San Juan IslandSan Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km² and a population of 6,822 as of the 2000 census....
. They built a replica of the outside of the house on the west side of San Juan Island so that it looked like the house was on the waterfront, but in actuality it is in the valley. They built the house in San Juan County Park but since the house was built only for this filming, it was torn down after the movie was released.
According to Bullock in the film commentary, in the scene where the Owens women are drunk and slinging insults, the actresses actually got drunk on very bad
tequilaTequila is a spirit made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
brought by Kidman. The cast also believes that the supernatural elements of the house started to affect them; the cast and crew claim to have heard ghost noises while filming the coven scene at the end of the movie.
For the final scene with all of the townspeople at the Owens' home, the entire population of the town where filming took place was invited to show up in costume and be in the movie as townsfolk.
Music
Composer
Michael NymanMichael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
's score to the movie was abruptly replaced with music by
Alan SilvestriAlan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer and conductor.-Career:Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone , the Back to the Future trilogy , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Contact ,...
for the theatrical release. This last-minute change resulted in the release of two soundtracks, although as primarily a
compilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
, only the two tracks of newly-created material were changed. A 50-track demo (the last two tracks being "Convening the Coven" and "Maria Owens") of Nyman's score has been circulating among fans as a
bootlegA bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...
. The complete Nyman score runs 62:30 and contains music that would later appear, in altered form, in
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and
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, as well as a bit of his stepwise chord progression theme from
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/
String Quartet No. 3/
Carrington/
The End of the Affair/
The Claim. "Convening the Coven," though not "Maria Owens," was subsequently reissued on
The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001, and music that uses material related to this piece has not been used elsewhere.
Singer
Stevie NicksStephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...
headlined the soundtrack's published advertisements, promoting her songs "If You Ever Did Believe" and a new recording of her song "Crystal".
Track listing
- If You Ever Did Believe - Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...
and Sheryl CrowSheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...
- This Kiss
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- Faith HillFaith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...
- Got to Give It Up (Pt.1)
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- Is This Real? - Lisa Hall
- Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
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- A Case of You
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- Joni MitchellJoni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
- Nowhere and Everywhere - Michelle Lewis
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- Always on My Mind
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- Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
- Everywhere - Bran Van 3000
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- Coconut
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- Harry NilssonHarry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...
- Crystal - Stevie Nicks
- Practical Magic - Alan Silvestri
Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer and conductor.-Career:Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone , the Back to the Future trilogy , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Contact ,...
/ Convening the Coven - The Michael Nyman Orchestra
- Amas Veritas - Alan Silvestri / Maria Owens - The Michael Nyman Orchestra
Box Office
Total US Gross $46,850,558
International Gross $21,486,439
Worldwide Gross $68,336,997
Critic Reviews
The movie received mixed reviews, but most reviews claimed unsatisfying results. Although some critics enjoyed the depiction of magic and romance, others believed the movie was completely different from the novels, and that the description of witchcraft was practically nonexistent.
Film vs. Novel
The film was dramatically differed from the
original novel-Plot summary:'Practical Magic' is a complex story focusing on Gillian and Sally Owens. Gillian and Sally Owens were two happy, normal girls - until her parents die in what appears to be a tragic accidental fire...
:
- Gillian and Sally’s parents died in a house fire.
- Jimmy was an American practitioner of witchcraft, and also the first husband of Gillian Owens.
- Jimmy died of alcohol poisoning.
- After the death of Michael, Sally and her children move to Holland, Washington.
Awards
In 1999 the movie was nominated for the
American Comedy AwardThe American Comedy Awards were a group of awards presented annually in the United States from 1987 to 2001 recognizing performances and performers in the field of comedy, with an emphasis on television comedy and comedy films...
for Funniest Supporting Actress. That same year it was also nominated twice for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award and won one of the awards for Favorite Supporting Actress (Stockard Channing). It was lastly nominated for the Young Artist Award for Camilla Belle and Evan Rachel Wood.
Television spin-off
A
television pilotA "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
based on the film, titled
Sudbury was filmed for
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in 2003. It starred
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,
Jeri RyanJeri Lynn Zimmermann Ryan is an American actress best known for her roles as the liberated Borg, Seven of Nine, on Star Trek: Voyager; Tara Cole on Leverage; and Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston Public. She was also a regular on the science fiction show Dark Skies and the legal drama series...
,
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,
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,
Dixie CarterDixie Virginia Carter was an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women...
,
Shirley KnightShirley Enola Knight is an American stage, film and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth....
and
Esai MoralesEsai Manuel Morales is an American actor. He is well known for his role as Bob Morales in the 1987 biopic La Bamba. He also appeared in the PBS drama American Family and in the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd.. However, he is best known for his roles as Lt...
. Sandra Bullock served as
executive producerAn executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
. The pilot was not picked up.