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Running time 91 minutes Country United Kingdom United States Language English Box office $15.3 million The Witches is a 1990 British/American directed by and stars,,, and, based on the 1983. As in the original novel, the story features evil who masquerade as ordinary women and kill children, and a boy and his grandmother need to find a way to foil and destroy them. The Witches was produced by for and distributed by as the last theatrical film to be produced by Lorimar, before the company shut down in 1993. The film was very well received by critics, but, and was also disliked by Dahl because its ending differs from the book.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] During a vacation with his grandmother Helga in Norway, eight year old American boy Luke Eveshim is warned about the, female demons with a boundless hatred for children and various methods of destroying or transforming them. Helga tells him that her childhood friend fell victim to a witch and cursed to spend the rest of her life trapped inside a painting, ageing gradually and changing her position in the canvas until she finally disappeared a few years earlier. Skripit panelj na 2110.

After Luke's parents are killed in a car accident, Helga becomes Luke's legal guardian and they move to England. While pulling up a basket to the treehouse he and his father built, Luke is approached by a woman he quickly realizes is a witch, though he sees through her ruse and escapes. On Luke's ninth birthday, Helga falls ill with diabetes. Her doctor advises them to spend the summer by the sea.

They stay at a seaside hotel, where Luke meets and befriends 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. Sigma asc 434 driver test.

Also staying at the hotel are a convention of witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with the, the all-powerful leader of the world's witches, attending their annual meeting under the name Eva Ernst. Inside the ballroom where the witches hold their meeting, Luke spies upon them as as the Grand High Witch unveils her latest creation: a magic potion to turn children into mice, which they will use on confectionery products in sweet shops and candy stores to be opened using money provided by her. Having already been given the formula a few hours earlier, Bruno is brought into the room, where he turns into a mouse and flees. Luke is discovered and runs to Helga in their room, but finds her resting after having a dizzy spell. The Grand High Witch seizes Luke and takes him back to the ballroom, where he is forced to drink a potion, turning him into a mouse, though he avoids being squashed and escapes. He finds Bruno and reunites with Helga, who has since recovered. The mouse Luke devises a plan to kill the witches by sneaking into Ernst's room to steal a bottle of the potion.