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  1. May 20, 2024 · Reimagining Roald Dahl's beloved story for a modern audience, Robert Zemeckis's visually innovative THE WITCHES tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. The boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical ...

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  2. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › m001tvfvBBC One - The Witches

    May 24, 2024 · The Witches. Home. Watch now. Based on the Roald Dahl novel, a young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader. 6 days left to watch.

  3. May 31, 2024 · 31 May 2024. Jess Bacon. Official JustWatch writer. Roald Dahl, who penned classics such as Matilda and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, is widely regarded as one of Britain’s most influential children’s book authors. Even three decades after his death, Dahl’s darkly comic whimsical best-sellers continue to be reimagined for new ...

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  4. May 21, 2024 · The Witches also suffers from, as often remakes do, over familiarity. The plot is exactly the same as its predecessor, with any minor story changes, like the Grandmother trying to use the witches potion to create her own cure for its effects, detrimental to the film’s pacing.

  5. Jun 7, 2024 · Roald Dahl (born September 13, 1916, Llandaff, Wales—died November 23, 1990, Oxford, England) was a British writer who was a popular author of ingenious and irreverent children’s books. His best-known works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and Matilda (1988), both of which were adapted into popular films. Roald Dahl's ...

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  6. May 30, 2024 · Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020) Warner Bros. Anne Hathaway stars in the film adaptation of the Roald Dahl book, which follows a young boy as he moves in with his grandmother after his parents' deaths.

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  8. 18 hours ago · Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical is a 2022 comedy-drama film directed by Matthew Warchus. Based on Roald Dahl‘s beloved 1988 children’s novel Matilda, the movie revolves around Matilda Wormwood.