To a witch, clean children stink of dog droppings the dirtier the children, the less likely she is to smell them. While there, Agatha teaches Charlie how to tell a witch from an ordinary woman: real witches have three-fingered claws, which they hide by wearing gloves are bald, which they hide by wearing wigs that give them rashes have square-ended feet with no toes which they hide by wearing small, pointy shoes that cause them discomfort, have mouths that can open nearly to their ears, and have a powerful sense of smell aided by extendable nostrils, which they use to sniff out children. Frantically, they decide to stay in a nearby hotel where her cousin Eston was once the executive chef.

Agatha says that witches never leave once they find a child. She says a witch cursed her childhood friend Alice into spending the rest of her life as a chicken. He is approached by a witch who tries to lure him with a caramel and a snake, but Agatha calls him, and the witch disappears.Īfter telling Agatha about the encounter, Charlie learns from her that the witches are in fact real. One day, Charlie accompanies Agatha shopping. Charlie is gradually cheered up by Agatha, who buys him a pet mouse whom he names Daisy. In 1968, after a car accident kills his parents in Chicago, young Charlie Hansen lives with his grandmother Agatha in Demopolis, Alabama. The film was removed from HBO Max in July 2022. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who mostly praised the performances and visualsīut criticized its script, deeming it inferior to Roeg's film despite being more faithful to the book. The Witches was released on HBO Max in the United States on October 22, 2020, also having a traditional theatrical release in some markets a week later. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, and Stanley Tucci, and is narrated by Chris Rock. It is based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl and is the second feature-length adaptation of the novel, after the 1990 film of the same name directed by Nicolas Roeg. Roald Dahl's The Witches, or simply The Witches, is a 2020 supernatural comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis, Kenya Barris, and Guillermo del Toro.

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