Practical Magic

Practical Magic is a 1998 American <a href="/facts/Romantic_comedy/SfsFwM9z">romantic comedy</a> <a href="/facts/Fantasy_film/fPX7SpAC">fantasy film</a> based on the 1995 <a href="/facts/Practical_Magic_(novel)/Hch7HnNb">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/facts/Alice_Hoffman/sqeBtcaw">Alice Hoffman</a>. The film was directed by <a href="/facts/Griffin_Dunne/Muesc3zm">Griffin Dunne</a> and stars <a href="/facts/Sandra_Bullock/M4rKnlcb">Sandra Bullock</a>, <a href="/facts/Nicole_Kidman/bpbmqbjg">Nicole Kidman</a>, <a href="/facts/Stockard_Channing/PSjpbUCY">Stockard Channing</a>, <a href="/facts/Dianne_Wiest/UXuCogqA">Dianne Wiest</a>, <a href="/facts/Aidan_Quinn/klvb4IKR">Aidan Quinn</a>, and <a href="/facts/Goran_Visnjic/r8dQCv0s">Goran Višnjić</a>.
Bullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who have always known they were different from other people - they are <a href="/facts/Witches/kdbQwmBD">witches</a>. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but normal — their aunts fed them brownies for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But being a member of the Owens family carries a curse: The men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the <a href="/facts/Family_curse/8D1oLNk9">family curse</a> and a swarm of supernatural forces that could take away all the Owenses' lives.
The film is considered a cult classic.

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