The Witches (1990 film)

The Witches is a 1990 fantasy film based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by The Jim Henson Company for Lorimar Film Entertainment and Warner Bros, starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson and Jasen Fisher.

During a holiday with his grandmother Helga in Norway, nineyearold American boy Luke Eveshim is told stories about real witches, who are demonic females with a genocidal hatred for children due to emitting a foul odor that only they can smell. Helga tells him of a story where her childhood friend was taken and cursed to spend the rest of her life trapped inside a painting. After Lukes parents are killed in a car crash, Helga becomes Lukes legal guardian and they move to England. While building a treehouse, Luke is accosted by a witch, though he sees through her ruse and avoids his potential death. On Lukes birthday, Helga falls ill and is diagnosed with diabetes. Her doctor advises them to spend the weekend by the sea so Helga can recover.They stay at a seaside resort, where Luke meets a gluttonous but friendly boy, Bruno Jenkins, while getting on the bad side of the hotel manager, Mr. Stringer, after his pet mice frighten a maid who is having an affair with the manager. However, also staying at the hotel are all of Englands witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with the Grand High Witch, the leader of all the worlds witches, attending their conference. Luke inadvertently discovers the witches while playing with his pet mice inside the ballroom, where the witches hold their meeting. The Grand High Witch unveils her latest weapon a formula to turn children in mice, which they will use on their products when they all open sweet shops and candy stores with the Grand High Witchs counterfeit money. The Grand High Witch lures Bruno into the room, having previously given him chocolate laced with the formula, and he turns into a mouse and flees. Luke attempts to escape, but is also captured and turned into a mouse, though he manages to escape their attempts to squash him, find Bruno and reunite with Helga. ........

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