Film· 1990· Fantasy

The Witches

by Nicolas Roeg

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The Witches

Book · 1983

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Nicolas Roeg's film adapts Roald Dahl's novel about a boy who uncovers a convention of witches plotting to turn England's children into mice. Dahl disliked the film for reversing his ending, in which the boy stays a mouse.

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The Witches

The film stars Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling and concerns evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and follows an orphaned boy and his grandmother, who must find a way to foil their plot of ridding the world of children.