Hocus Pocus
Walt Disney Home Video

June 4th, 2002

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Rating: 4.7 / 5.0 (550 votes)

Released: 2002-06-04
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Hocus Pocus by Walt Disney Home Video

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Movie Details
Director Kenny Ortega	Studio Walt Disney Home Vid	Runtime 96	Rated PG (Parental Guidance)	Binding DVD

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Description

Producer David Kirschner came up with the idea for the movie one night while he and his young daughter were sitting outside and his neighbor's black cat strayed by. Kirschner began to unspool a narrative of how the cat was once a boy who was changed into a feline 300 years ago by three witches.

Actors

Bette Midler
Thora Birch
Kathy Najimy
Sarah Jessica Parker
Stephanie Faracy

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Editorial Review

This big, fat theatrical bomb has a lot going for it. There's the three leads, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, playing three resurrected witches who wreak havoc on Salem, Massachusetts, 300 hundred years after they were hung. There's music, special effects, and magic. There's a surprisingly horror-filled plot. Whoops, hold up on that last one. It's probably the extremes that this film goes to (displaying a Disney label), such as the witches sucking the life out of a little girl in the first five minutes, that put the brakes on any success for Hocus Pocus. Older children, however, in the 8 and up range should get a kick out of all the weird goings-on. It's a good measure of Halloween thrills and chills. –Keith Simanton