Bewitched (film)

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Bewitched
Image:Bewitchedmovieposter.jpg
Directed by Nora Ephron
Produced by Lucy Fisher
Penny Marshall
Douglas Wick
Written by Delia Ephron
Nora Ephron
Starring Nicole Kidman
Will Ferrell
Shirley MacLaine
Michael Caine
Kristin Chenoweth
Heather Burns
Jason Schwartzman
David Alan Grier
Stephen Colbert
and Steve Carell
Music by George Fenton
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) June 24 2005
Running time 102 minutes
Language English
Budget $80 million (USD) (estimated)
IMDb profile

Bewitched is a 2005 comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and inspired by the classic television series of the same name. The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24 2005. It was directed by Nora Ephron and featured as co-stars Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. It was rated PG-13 in the US, and PG in the UK and Australia. The film began filming in 2004 and was finished by early 2005. This is the second film Nicole Kidman plays a witch, the first being in Practical Magic.

According to the teaser [1], it was originally scheduled for release in July, but instead, it opened on June 24, 2005.

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[edit] Plot/Summary

The film is not an adaptation of the television series, but more of an homage. It is about a witch named Isabel Bigelow (Kidman) who wants to give up magic and have a normal life, despite her magic-loving father's (Michael Caine) warnings that she can't live without it. She meets a failing movie star named Jack (Ferrell) who wants to find an unknown actress to play a witch — and his wife — in a TV show, a modern adaptation of the classic TV show Bewitched, a ploy of which the egocentric actor can eclipse his co-star and claim the spotlight entirely, part of this is perpetrated by his agent (Jason Schwartzman), who is equally obnoxious as Jack.

When she becomes more popular than he is and unintentionally takes the spotlight away, the pompous, self-centered Jack decides to downplay her role and make the show focus on Darrin (thus garnering the audience's attention). Isabel becomes angry when she finds out (since he told her during her auditions that he "needed her") and furiously tells him that he's a jerk. The harsh words, strangely enough, appeal to Jack who never had anyone speak their mind to him before, especially his ex-wife (who he claimed preferred to just lock him out of the house). He begins to give her bigger roles and the two begin to fall in love. Isabel feels guilty for hiding her powers from Jack however, and shows him her powers. He becomes upset that she might be using magic to manipulate his emotions and leaves her. Devastated, Isabel decides to return home, where Jack is told by Uncle Arthur (Steve Carell) she must stay for 100 years once she returns. Jack realizes that he loves Isabel for real after all and tries to find her before she returns home. To his surprise, he finds her at the studio, which she considers her "home". Jack proposes to her and she accepts. Before she accepts, it is revealed that she didn't have to remain at her home for 100 years before she could, once again, return.

Meanwhile the "spirits" of the old Bewitched television show work their own magic on Isabel and Jack by ensuring that the couple ends up in a happy union of witch to mortal like on the original series. The home in which Isabel and Jack finally settle in together is numbered "1164" as a nod to the house address from the original TV series: 1164 Morning Glory Circle.

[edit] Reception

  • The movie was panned by critics[2] and earned a world-wide gross of $131,413,159. The Total US Gross was $63,313,159 with International Gross at $68,100,000;

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