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Summary: They cast a spell on me..
Review: This film has an ensmble cast to end all ensemble casts.. what more could you ask for.. Jack nicholson as the devil.. Cher, Susan Sarandon, and (the impeccable) Michelle Pfiefer as three sultry sexy witches.. Darrel Van Horn comes to the town of Eastwick when he is summoned by three witches who have been scorned or hurt by the men they loved.. Cher Plays Alex, whose husband died and left her to raise a daughter by herself.. Michelle plays Suki, a newspaper journalist whose husband abandoned her because she got preganant all the time.. and Susan plays Jane, the divorced elemntary school music teacher.. Van Horn moves into each of their lives his own way and shows them the potential they always felt was there.. once the girls realize what is really going on, they exact their revenge.. A great, fun and Witty movie.. a must see..
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Summary: Witches are the best protection against the devil
Review: This film has to be compared with Stephen King's book « Needful Things ». The devil is called into a middle-sized town by three women who are free of any husband. When they think the same thing together it happens. So they dream of their ideal man and here he is. They get mesmerized by the man and they build with him a little family. Three plus one is four. It would be perfect if they did not change. But they do change. They start giving free reein to their creativity and thus they become disturbing for the town. Some old puritan women become very suspiciouos and then hostile. But Mister Devil decides to destroy this opposition and he kills the main inspiratress of this opposition. The three women then wake up and find out that they all are pregnant, and that they do not want any harm to be done to other people. So they first send him to hell, which, being the devil,he does not like and he tries to get his revenge onto them by making them suffer. So they decide to send him back to where he came from with his own devices, that is to say some kind of black magic and voodoo. And they succeed. His only way to come back is through television waves. But you can easily switch it off. So he is trapped overthere and he has become harmless. The main difference with « Needful Things » is that the devil does not, here, buys everyone in the village using their deep desires for some objects and then trading those for some misdeeds committed against other members of the village. He just captures three women and makes them his objects. He only becomes bad when the town decides to turn against him, and the women in their wake. So it is fundamentally a comedy , not a horror story. The second element is that the devil is not trying to destroy, to spread evil acts surging from evil desires in men and women, but only to get his pleasure out of the three women he has captured. The film reveals the puritan reactions of a wide section of the older population of the town. The next difference is that the three women get to some kind of unity against him through their desire to protect the other inhabitants of the city. King shows that the unity can only be achieved if one brings together all the others, or at least all the survivors by exposing the devil in his deeds. This unifying member of the community is the sheriff, which is typical of King, but in many ways very standard in the American culture : the sheriff is the natural protector of the community. In the film, the protection comes from women, showing how wrong the devil is when he preaches, in the church, mind you, the evil nature of women. He preaches that when he is confronted to the hostility of the three rebellious « witches ». This is a very modern element in American culture: women, and what's more witches, are the natural protection of a community against evil and the devil. This is set in perspective when we remember (and the film gives us that element) that witches started being exposed and burnt when what they were up to the XVth century, that is to say midwives, became a competition to doctors and doctors had to get rid of them to clear their profesional field. So this film is very progressive on the subject : witches are not the devil's weapons, but the best protection a community can have against the devil because they know his tools and weapons and can clearly keep him away. Jack Nicholson is an admirable and marvellous devil. A masterpiece in acting, even if it is a role that he plays too often, the role of a deranged person, of an abnormal person, of a person who is standing beyond the limits of normality. But he does it so well. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Summary: If the devil had a body, he WOULD be Jack
Review: This is a deliciously wicked fun film! Great premise, awesome characters, terrific performances, fun plot! What's not to like??? This is a film you'll enjoy watching again and again.
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Summary: Very good film
Review: This is a good film about 3 lovely, lonely and bored witches, (Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer) who engage in a battle of wits with the devil himself (Jack Nicholson). This is a good film with snappy dialogue and beautiful New England scenery. Some may say the ending is a bit overdone and outrageous, but somehow it fits in with the film, after all it is an offbeat film, offbeat but fun! Also starring in this movie is Veronica Cartwright (Alien, The Birds).
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Summary: Ok up to a certian parts of this movie
Review: This is a ok movie. I have to admiit that I have seen much better whitch movies then this one. MIchelle Phipher was grate in this movie but I have seen her act better then she did in this movie. Cher was also good in this movie she really did her carictor well. Susan Surranden has also been in much better movies but I have to say that she also dose a grate job of partraying her carictore. This is not the type of movie that I would say run out and bye but this is a ok movie for the reall which fanatics.
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Summary: Best Witches Ever
Review: This is one of the best movies with Cher. Jack is awesome as "D" and Susan Sarandon and Michele Pfifer are totaly wicked. The only thing I did not like was the paper case and that it had not been digitaly remastered. Other than that awesome movie highly recomend it!
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Summary: AWESOME MOVIE!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie is so great. It is about a man named Daryl Van Horn and these three girls named Alex, Sucky, and Jane. These three girls wanted a man to love and all that other stuff. Well this man came to them. After he came many strange things began to happen like many accidents and one death. These girls don't know at first that he is a warlock. Later the girls find out they are witches also. Watch the movie and you will be sure to love it!!!
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Summary: For a "horror movie", this one's pretty funny!
Review: To begin with, the title of this movie might actually be considered a misnomer since Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher don't play true witches; they're just three ordinary-acting girlfriends who happen to have psychic powers through some unexplained twist of Hollywood magic. Once they conjure up their ideal man in the form of Jack Nicholson, all three women are taken in by his uncanny abilities to bring out their wild sides. Who can forget, for example, the "cello lesson" he gives Jane (Sarandon); or the way he "sweet-talks" Cher into staying when she wants to leave? Whoever did the special effects for this movie did a darn good job; they're what I enjoy the most about this movie. One of the most beautiful (and funny) effects would be the part when Nicholson makes all three women float above the indoor pool...before his concentration is broken by the entrance of Fidel (Carel Struckyen)....and they all fall in. And when our heroines discover that the source of Nicholson's power is actually voodoo....! You fill in the blank. (Carel Struckyen would later go on to play a recurring role on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as another mute character, Mr. Homn: the personal aide to Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett)).
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Summary: One of the Fifty Worst Films of All Time!
Review: Utterly unwatchable nonsense.
This is a film that looks like it was put together in the Bizzaro world, like a split-level home built from clapboard, milk cartons and used furniture crates. Nicholson reprises his role in "The Shining" by portraying himself as a basket case, a routine he uses in about 99% of his roles.
"The Witches of Eastwick" is based on the book by John Updike, but whatever Updike originally wanted to say about the differences between the sexes is upstaged by the hammy Nicholson, who should have been relegated to being the caterer for the shooting location.
It's also difficult to believe that the talented Cher, the same person who made "Moonstruck" such a great film, would have had anything to do with this mess.
"The Witches of Eastwick" bombed at the box office after word of mouth killed it. It's not a film that will be dredged up from time to time because it was once popular; it wasn't. However, it is a film that will probably appeal to worshipers of Cher or Nicholson, or some obscure Hollywood mutual admiration society.
At this point, a used VHS edition of "The Witches of Eastwick" is selling for about $1.00 on amazon, but even that's too much to pay for this dog.
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Summary: One of the Fifty Worst Films of All Time...
Review: Utterly unwatchable nonsense. This is a film that looks like it was put together in the Bizzaro world, like a split-level home built from clapboard, milk cartons and used furniture crates. Nicholson reprises his role in "The Shining" by portraying a certifiable looney, as he has in about 99% of his roles. It's probably become a routine for him... Boy, talk about being typecast. This film is based on a book by John Updike, but whatever Updike originally wanted to say about the difference between the sexes is upstaged by the hammy Nicholson, who should have been relegated to being the caterer for the shooting location. It's difficult to believe that the talented Cher, the same person who made "Moonstruck" such a great film, would have had anything to do with this mess. "The Witches of Eastwick" bombed at the box office after word of mouth killed it. It's not a film that will be dredged up from time to time because it was once popular; it wasn't. However, it is a film that will probably appeal to worshipers of Cher or Nicholson, or some obscure Hollywood mutual admiration society. At this point, a used VHS edition of "The Witches of Eastwick" is selling for about $1.50 on amazon, but even that's too much to pay for this dog.
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