Practical Magic
For two sisters from a family of witches, falling in love is the trickiest spell of all.
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves.But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic.With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
- Director
- Griffin Dunne
- Worldwide
- $47M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
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Box Office & Release
Practical Magic returned 0.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $75M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $47M
- Release date
- Oct 16, 1998
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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