Practical Magic

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(1998)

Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Thriller

Director: Griffin Dunne

Writers: Alice Hoffman, Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks

Producers: Bruce Berman, Denise Di Novi, Mary McLaglen, Robin Swicord

Synopsis: Sally and Gillian Owens have always known they were different. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical--their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But the invocation of the Owens' sorcery also carries a price--some call it 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 family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that threatens the lives of all the Owens women.-- (Written by WARNER BROS.)  

Cast:

• Sandra Bullock
• Nicole Kidman
• Stockard Channing
• Dianne Wiest
• Goran Visnjic
• Evan Rachel Wood
• Camilla Belle

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Beginners

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(2010)

Genre: Drama/Comedy

Director: Mike Mills

Writer: Mike Mills

Producers: Mirand de Pencier, Fran Giblin, Lars Knudsen, Geoff Linville, Joan Scheckel, Leslie Urdang, Jay Van Hoy, Dean Vanech

  

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Synopsis: Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who - following 44 years of marriage - came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. (Written by IFC)

Cast:

• Ewan McGregor
• Christopher Plummer
• Mélanie Laurent
• Goran Visnjic

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Helen

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(2009)

Genre: Drama

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck

Writer: Sandra Nettelbeck

Synopsis: Helen has it all: friends, an attentive second husband, a cheerful teen daughter, musical talent, and a university teaching job. Then, something's amiss: is her husband cheating, does she have a fatal disease, does her past haunt her? There's a quick hospitalization, a disclosure, a bond with one of her students, Mathilde, and a dark chasm that seems to be opening in front of her: can Helen do anything about the problem she won't discuss, or will it swallow her? (Written by Anonymous)

Cast:

• Ashley Judd
• Goran Visnjic
• Lauren Lee Smith

 

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