The Witches Are Coming...

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Roald Dahl's The Witches is one of my favorite ridiculous stories. Like many of Dahl's works, it's a story about a clever child who sees that something is wrong, when most of the adults don't, and sets out to make it right. Many years ago, The Witches was made into a movie starring Angelica Huston as the Grand High Witch. I loved it! This October, there's a new film, and it's Anne Hathaway's turn to take on the title role. I can't wait!

Here's the official synopsis from Warner Brothers:

Witches are real, and they are everywhere! 

From Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis comes the fantasy adventure “Roald Dahl’s The Witches.” The film stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, and Chris Rock alongside newcomers Jahzir Kadeem Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick.

Reimagining Dahl’s beloved story for a modern audience, Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.

Roald Dahl's The Witches arrives on HBOMAX on October 22.