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CAST
Robin Tunney - Sarah
Fairuza Balk - Nancy
Neve Campbell - Bonnie
Rachel True - Rochelle
Skeet Ulrich - Chris
Christine Taylor - Laura Lizzie
Breckin Meyer - Mitt
Nathaniel Marston - Trey
Cliff De Young - Mr. Bailey
Helen Shaver - Grace
Assumpta Serna - Lirio
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The Craft (12)
 
Critic Rating (3.0)
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(1996, Horror) |
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Director - Andrew Fleming |
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Stars - Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell |
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Sarah is a new girl (Tunney), she arrives in a new town, and spends her first day at the new school. It is here that she meets Chris (Ulrich) who she likes, and three strange girls. These girls are known to the other kids as the Bitches of Eastwick because everyone thinks they're witches. They are witches. However, to be complete they need to be four, for the four corners of a compass. While in a class, one of the witches (Balk) notices Sarah balancing and spinning a pencil on it's top as if my magic. As if you hadn't guessed, Sarah becomes the fourth member of the convent, mainly due to the fact that all the school kids don't like her and Chris telling everyone that they had sex and she was bad.
Becoming a witch is the perfect way for a teenage girl to get revenge on anyone that messed with her, and that's the basic idea of the film. All four witches have their own separate problems with different people, and their new found magic powers allow them to put everything right. However, the power goes to some of their heads and it all gets out of hand. What started off as four girls having a bit of fun ends up with them trying to call up gods and killing people.
Although the idea is a fairly food one, there seems to be a lack of actual incident. With four girls having so much power, I would imagine they would use it to much more effect than messing with traffic lights and making people's hair fall out. Some of each character's personal problems in life are interesting, if not almost cliched. Sarah is suicidal since her mother's death, Nancy lives in a trailor with her mother and abusive step-father, Bonnie is looked at as a freak because of burn scars, and Rochelle is the subject of racial abuse for being black.
The film is listed as horror, although there isn't a whole lot of horror in it, save for some snakes and spiders. I think this film would appeal from the age range of pre-teens onwards, since a few scenes are probably a bit too scary for younger viewers. A good idea, quite good film, just could have been a lot more.
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