The Witches

Witches are real!

Hollywood transposes Dahl’s classic from England to Alabama. A young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving Grandma in a rural Alabama town back in 1967. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe to carry out her nefarious plans.

104 minutes.
Parental Guidance 7-9 (Violence, Horror).
Adventure, Comedy, Detective/Mystery, Family, Fantasy, Horror.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock
Director	Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay	Robert Zemeckis, Kenya Barris, Guillermo Del Toro, from the book by Roald Dahl
Music	Alan Silvestri
Cinematography	Don Burgess
Editing	Ryan Chan, Jeremiah O'Driscoll
Soundtrack	Listen to samples or get it right now on Amazon Affiliate link
Made in	2020
Produced by	Warner Bros., ImageMovers, Double Dare You, Esperanto Filmoj, Necropia Entertainment, The Jim Henson Company

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Adventure, comedy
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None (sic)
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	Contains scenes of horror.
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USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance Suggested	Rated PG for scary images/moments, language and thematic elements
Runtime	106
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

British Board of Film Classification rating

PG: Parental Guidance (General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children)	Mild threat, Scary scenes, Language
Runtime	105
British version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 10 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Metacritic.com 30 critics	9
Rottentomatoes critics 120 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Witches misses a few spells, but Anne Hathaway’s game performance might be enough to bewitch fans of this Roald Dahl tale.	10
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	10
CommonSenseMedia Sandie Angulo Chen Campy but creepy Dahl adaptation has lots of spooky stuff.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 33 users	8
Rottentomatoes users 299 users	9
Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter	8
IMDB 5889 Netizens	11
The Movie DB Community	15
Average .. 53%	11