Wolff rating: MOSTLY HARMLESS
Plot summary: Two sisters (who also happen to be witches) have man troubles, witch troubles, and undead troubles.
Biased, pithy comments: Take two leads who have zero chemistry (and look and act nothing at all like sisters), mix in a soundtrack that is designed to sell CDs and not be part of the movie, boil off any sort of plot or coherence, and then fill the spaces that are left with forced ``spontenanous joy'' scenes, add eye of newt, and serve. What do you get? A movie filled with opportunities lost, roads not taken, brazen commercialism, gratuitous pandering to its audience, and Wiest and Channing out-acting the two so-called stars of the film. Some movies can be this defocused and succeed on the strength of the acting, but not this one. Skip, skip, skip.
Other Notes: I openly admit I'm not the target audience for this film, but even my target audience I married thought this was more or less junk. The book must have made more sense.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Adrian Quinn, Nichole Kidman, Diane Wiest, Stockard Channing.
Directed by: Griffin Dunne