Practical Magic (1998) |
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Practical Magic Cast |
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Nicole Kidman
(as Gillian Owens)
with Goran Visnjic
(as Jimmy Angelov)
Aidan Quinn
(as Officer Gary Hallet)
with Sandra Bullock
(as Sally Owens)
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Practical Magic (1998) was nominated for the following awards:
Young Artist Awards
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Young Artist Award
1999
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Young Artist Award
1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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Blockbuster Entertainment Award
1999
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Blockbuster Entertainment Award
1999 American Comedy Awards, USA
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American Comedy Award
1999 |
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Quotes //./. >?,;,/., ./> .,? /. ?. Gary Hallet: Did you or your sister kill James Angelov?
Sally Owens: Yeah, a couple of times. Aunt Jet Owens: And this is what comes from dabbling; I mean you can`t practice witchcraft while you look down your nose at it. Sally Owens: All I want is a normal life.
Aunt Frances Owens: My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!
Sally Owens: Well, it`s what I want.
Sally Owens: What would you do, Gilly?
Gillian Owens: What wouldn`t I do... for the right guy? Sally Owens: [Sally`s letter to Gillian] Sometimes I feel like there`s a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. The moon tonight, there`s a circle around it. Sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don`t know. Maybe I had my happiness. I don`t want to believe it but, there is no man, Gilly. Only that moon. Gillian Owens: Hang onto your husbands, girls! Sally Owens: Since when is being a slut a crime in this family? Jimmy Angelov: [while possessing Gillian] You know, girls, I`m feeling very into sisters right now. Sally Owens: Louis L`amour, who, by the way, was not a foreigner! He was from North Dakota, you asshole!
Sally Owens: Can love really travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria`s curse? I`d like to think so. But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can. Gillian Owens: You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast?
Antonia Owens: She does it all the time.
Gillian Owens: She does? Well, that`s what love is like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you`re not careful, if you don`t keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can`t see what`s happening to the people around you. You can`t see that you`re about to fall. Sally Owens: I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. Sally Owens: And I don`t want them dancing naked under the full moon!
Aunt Jet Owens: No, of course. The nudity is entirely optional. As you well remember! ally Owens: [to Gary] The reason you`re here and you don`t know why is because I sent for you. Gary Hallet: Gary Hallet: What was that, Sally? That was him, wasn`t it? Is he gone or what?
Sally Owens: Sally: Yes, you killed his spirit, but I know I took his life. I`ll tell you all need to know. I`ll tell you how I did it, where I buried him, what I did it with. I`ll tell you how
Gary Hallet: Gary Hallet: Wow, wow wow, Hold on just a goddamn second, all right? One step at a time. I took on oath to uphold the law. I came here to bring in the bad guy because generally that`s what I do. You asked me how many times I read your letter. I must`ve read it about a thousand times. I know now, It was your letter anything else that brought me here. It was you. And I`m all mixed-up about that. Kylie Owens: Mom, I`m worried about Antonia. Did you know that she put on her mouse ears and drives around town, all liquored up, NAKED? [after they make a binder ring snap on a mother`s finger]
Sally Owens: [to Gillian] Don`t do that.
Gillian Owens: It wasn`t me, it was you!
[Both giggling]
Mother: Oh I am so please to report this, and the top of the phone tree list is... wait a minute, it`s Sally Owens
Gillian Owens: Whooo go Sal... now that was me! Children: Witch! Witch! You`re a bitch! Witch! Witch! You`re a bitch!
Sally Owens: You`d think after three hundred years they`d come up with a better rhyme! [all drunk]
Gillian Owens: You southern shrew!
Aunt Jet Owens: Ingrate!
Aunt Frances Owens: Goodie two shoes!
Sally Owens: WITCH! Frances Owens: She heard the beetle ticking for your father`s death all day long. She knew that when you hear the sound of the deathwatch beetle the man you love is doomed to die. Gillian Owens: Of course you`re going to see me again. We`ll grow old together. It`s going to be you and me living in a big house... these two old biddies with all these cats. I bet we even die on the same day. Aunt Jet Owens: You see that couple here? Well, he`s having an affair with the babysitter and she can eat a pound cake in under a minute. Sally Owens: It was the curse, wasn`t it? He died because I loved him so much. Sally Owens: We were going to open a botanical shop. Where Mike would get all the ingredients and I`d make the stuff. He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream. He couldn`t stop eating it. Gary Hallet: Strange town. Never spent this much on shampoo before, in my life. Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards.
Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing?
Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He`ll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he`ll have one green eye and one blue.
Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love.
Young Sally Owens: That`s the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn`t exist. And if he doesn`t exist, I`ll never die of a broken heart.
Carla: But Sally never gets picked cause everyone knows she`s a w...
[pauses after Linda give her a look]
Carla: different! Gillian Owens: [possessed by Jimmy Angelov`s spirit; crying] He wants me... just me. Everyone will be all right. Let him take me...
Sally Owens: Don`t die on me, Gillian Owens. Gary Hallet: Curses only have power when you believe them. And I don`t.
[walks away, pauses then turns to Sally]
Gary Hallet: You know what? I wished for you too. Sally Owens: You should know she has the worst taste in men.
Sally Owens: [to Gillian] Well, you do. Sally Owens: [cuts her hand] My Blood.
[cuts Gillian`s hand]
Sally Owens: Your Blood.
[smacks their hands together]
Sally Owens: *Our* Blood. Jimmy Angelov: I was just thinking about you.
Gillian Owens: You`re always thinking about me. Aunt Jet Owens, Aunt Frances Owens: [singing] Someone left it on the porch Sally Owens: [after Michael`s death; brings the spell book out] You brought him into my life and now I want you to bring him back. Bring him back! I have never asked you for anything. I`ve never asked you for spells but do this. I know you can bring him back.
Aunt Jet Owens: No, dear. We won`t do that.
Aunt Frances Owens: We don`t do that.
Sally Owens: But you can. You can do this. I know you can. I remember. I found it here when mommy and daddy died.
Aunt Frances Owens: Even if we did bring him back, it wouldn`t be Michael. It would be something else. Something dark and unnatural.
Sally Owens: [Starts crying] I don`t care what he comes back as. As long he comes back. Please do this for me. Please? Please? Please? Please?Trivia /., The character Jimmy Angelov was originally named Jimmy Hawkins, and was a Texas redneck. The part was rewritten as Eastern European for Goran Visnjic after director Griffin Dunne saw him in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and Madonna`s "Power of Goodbye" video.
At the end of the movie, all of the witches in black robes are wearing red-and-white striped stockings, similar to those worn by the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Originally set on an island in New England, but was filmed in the San Juan Strait in Washington State on the west coast due to weather and financial reasons. The entire house was a specially built architectural shell that was torn down after filming. It was built on rented land, and even the blossoms on the trees are fake - made of silk. When asked why actresses Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman were to play sisters when they obviously looked nothing alike, director Griffin Dunne stated that when he researched historical witches that often times witch siblings typically looked nothing alike. Thus it made sense that the two were cast as sisters. However, when he was casting Griffin did made sure the two actresses who played Sandra`s daughters had features similar to each of the two main stars.
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# According to Sandra Bullock in the commentary, in the scene where Gillian and Sally get drunk with their aunts and they sling insults, the actresses actually got drunk. They were drinking some very bad tequila that Nicole Kidman brought. Aidan Quinn`s character , Officer Hallet, has something called Heterochromia Iridium. Heterochromia Iridium is an eye condition in which one iris is a partial or completely different color then the other iris. Although it is unusual in humans, there are some celebrities with this condition. Kate Bosworth and Jane Seymour to name two. Gillian (Nicole Kidman) cuts the palm of her hand and the hand of her sister (Sally Owens (Sandra Bullock) as part of a secret trust between the two of them. In Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), Siddalee `Sidda` Walker, Bullock`s character, has the palm of hand cut, as part of the initiation to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood club.
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# After bad reactions at a test screening, composer Michael Nyman`s score was rejected at the last minute. It was called too European sounding and obtrusive. It was replaced with one by Alan Silvestri. The change was made so late that the soundtrack albums had already been pressed. As a result, the first batch to hit stores all had two suites of themes from Nyman`s score. A few weeks later, a new version of the CD, with the exact same ISBN number, was made, replacing Nyman`s tracks with music by Silvestri.
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