Movie
Roald Dahl's The Witches
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2020-10-26
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Fantasy, Family, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ImageMovers, Warner Bros. Pictures, Necropia Entertainment, Esperanto Filmoj, The Roald Dahl Story Company
- Country
- Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Anne Hathaway as Grand High Witch
- Octavia Spencer as Grandma
- Stanley Tucci as Mr. Stringer
- Jahzir Bruno as Hero Boy
- Chris Rock as Older Hero (voice)
- Codie-Lei Eastick as Bruno Jenkins
- Kristin Chenoweth as Daisy / Mary (voice)
- Charles Edwards as Mr. Jenkins
- Morgana Robinson as Mrs. Jenkins
- Brian Bovell as Reginald
- Josette Simon as Zelda
- Eugenia Caruso as Consuella
Crew
- Robert Zemeckis - Director
- Robert Zemeckis - Screenplay
- Kenya Barris - Screenplay
- Guillermo del Toro - Screenplay
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