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- Categories:Animal, Inanimate, Animal, Movie
- (C) 1990, 120 mins, British, PG, Cast: Anjelica Hoston (Grand High
Witch), Mai Zaling (grandmother), Jason Fisher (luke), Rowin
Akinson (mr. Stringer), Magic, Fantasy
Description
A boy called Luke lives whith his grandmother after his parents are
killed in a car crash. Thay go to the seaside and Luke sees the
Grand High witch holding the witches meeting there. The Grand High
witch forces Luke to drink a liquid called formula 86 after finding
him. It turns him into a mouse! It is based on the book by Roald
Dahl and is on sale on D.V.D.(Best to look on amazon.co.u.k.!)
At the end of the movie Luke as a mouse is sleeping in a doll
house. Then a good witch comes to Luke's grandmother's house and a
blue light shoots out of the witch's hand. Luke then wakes up from
the light and is turned back into a boy. He then starts growing
back to his normal size. As Luke grows his hand and arm goes out
through the doll house window. Then at another window we see Luke's
face and his hand holding onto the window. He then grows his way
out through the roof of the doll house. As the roof is lifted up
the rest of the doll house cames apart. Luke then lands on the
bedroom floor.
Based Roald Dahl's book. Luke is taken care of by his Grandmother
since his parents died in a car accident. The Grandma fills his
head with stories of witches. Witches, it seems, hate children, and
like to "kill" them. But as the Grandma says, witches "don't use
guns or knives", they use magic. While visiting England, Luke
stumbles onto a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch (
Anjelica Houston ) has a plan. A plan to turn all the children of
England into mice by putting a special potion in chocolate bars to
be sold a certain day to be announced. Luke witnesses another boy
transformed into a mouse to demonstrate the potion to the assembled
witches. Luke is caught and forced to drink the potion turning him
into a mouse as well. Luke, Bruno ( the 1st transformed boy ), and
his Grandma outwit the witch and foil her plans to transform all of
England's children. They steal the potion, put it in the witch's
cockaliki soup ( made specially for the witches ironically posing
as an advocacy group for abused children ) and all of the witches (
except one, the Grand High Witch's personal secretary fired just
before the dinner ) turn into mice. Later on, the "secretary"
restores Luke's humanity. Bruno's restoration is not seen but
implied.
Rowan Atkinson ( Mr. Bean ) stars as the Hotel's snooty manager.
Interesting in that the witches are treated as a whole different
species as opposed to humans with magical abilities.
There are another small TF story told by Luke Grandma, about a
girl, who changed by witches into a painting.
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originally posted by anonymous on 2003-02-05, 4 edits, entryid=3860
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