Bewitched (2005)

Not Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Nora Ephron

Writers: Delia Ephron, Nora Ephron, Sol Saks

Cinematographer: John Lindley

Composer: George Fenton

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth, Heather Burns

A witch who has recently shunned her heritage for a life ordinariness (and possibly love) finds herself cast opposite a fading movie star in the retooling of ‘60s favourite Bewitched (1964-1972), swapping magic, excitement, and warlocks for egotists and sycophants, in Ephron’s sporadically entertaining if generally misfiring Hollywood satire, which should really have been played a tad straighter. Iain.Stott