Roald Dahl's The Witches

Oct 26, 2020

1h 44m

★ 6.3

WITCHES ARE REAL!

Overview

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

Genres

Comedy

Fantasy

Family

Horror

Production Companies

ImageMovers

Warner Bros. Pictures

Necropia Entertainment

Esperanto Filmoj

The Roald Dahl Story Company

Roald Dahl's The Witches Trailers

Cast

Grand High Witch

Anne Hathaway

Grandma

Octavia Spencer

Mr Stringer

Stanley Tucci

Hero Boy

Jahzir Bruno

Older Hero (voice)

Chris Rock

Bruno Jenkins

Codie-Lei Eastick

Daisy / Mary (voice)

Kristin Chenoweth

Mr Jenkins

Charles Edwards

Mrs Jenkins

Morgana Robinson

Reginald

Brian Bovell

Zelda

Josette Simon

Consuella

Eugenia Caruso

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