The Witches

1990
US
92 min
PG

Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Jasen Fisher, Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson

Nine-year-old Luke is warned by his Norwegian granny about the ever present threat posed by witches, which isn't much help because within the next half hour he stumbles on their annual convention in a small English hotel and gets himself changed into a mouse. A pleasing adaption of Roald Dahl's children's story has director Roeg (in unusually straightforward manner) creating a superior kids' movie that has you rooting for the mice all the way.