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Oct 30, 2018Rachelc24 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I love, love, love this movie. The book is nothing like it of course. I still liked it, I like Alice Hoffeman's story telling, but there is no "Magic" in the book version of Practical magic. Gillian and Sally don't really have powers. They are both beautiful. Gillian can make a man fall for her and sally is a strong independent woman raising two daughters alone after her true love husband dies in a freak accident.. but neither character is witchy. They are both normal women trying to figure out who they are and run away from their past.. and there is some love thrown in.. but no famous Owen's curse to break. They get haunted by a ghost after burying the body of Gillian's no good boyfriend in the yard, oops she thinks she killed him with nightshade, she was giving him so he would not beat her. the most interesting part of this is Sally's daughters who are teenagers in the book version.. not little kids. The Aunts are not around much either. This is one case where the movie is better than the book. that being said if you like the movie.. read "The rules of magic" its the story of the Aunts and how they grew up facing the owen's family curse.. the prequel seems more like a prequel to the movie that to the book.