Sabrina Goes to Rome
Sabrina Goes to Rome is a 1998 television film produced for ABC. The film is a part of the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch TV series franchise and is the second TV film made for the series following the 1996 Sabrina the Teenage Witch film, which was produced before the TV series went into production.
If Sabrina cannot open a mysterious antique gold locket and release the power trapped within, her Aunt Sophia will be lost forever. The secret to the locket lies in Rome, her father says. Sabrina heads for Italy and the Eternal City of Rome, for what was supposed to be two catless weeks to herself. Unknown to her she is accompanied by Salem who has stowed away in her backpack. Sabrina finds an unexpected roommate Gwen, a British witch with a talking guinea pig named Stonehenge nicknamed Stony. At the inn where she is staying, Sabrina learns that her Aunt Sophia was banished and trapped in the locket because she fell in love with a mortal who betrayed her and revealed to a friend that she was a witch. Later while traveling the city, she meets Paul, the gorgeous American photographer who catches her before she falls into the famous Trevi Fountain. Together, Sabrina and Gwen set out to solve the mystery of the locket. When Paul and his friend Travis witness Sabrina doing magic, while turning a walking statue to stone that Gwen brought life by accident they come up with an idea to sell the story. In the end Paul doesnt betray Sabrina, which sets Aunt Sophia free, as the locket says Trust your heart.As part of the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch book collection, a book titled Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Sabrina Goes to Rome is available. The book is written by the films screenwriter Daniel Berendsen. It is unnumbered, as is the second films book adaptation. The other books in the series are numbered in reading order. The book adds in a subplot not shown in the film featuring Sabrinas aunts back in Westbridge spying on Harvey and a mysterious girl named Tish. This also references previous continuity from the TV series, where Hilda has brought back the three butlers the aunts used to employ as shown in season 1s The Great Mistake. ........
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