Unfortunately, when they rock up at a swanky resort run by Stanley Tucci's Mr Stringer, the hotel just so happens to be playing host to an entire coven of the blighters – masquerading as the International Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children – who are plotting to turn the nation's kids into mice, and make something of a start. When he encounters Josette Simon's witch, his grandmother suggests fleeing – she has personal experience of their kind. Transposed to the Alabama of 1968 (from 1980s England and Norway), it sees a young African-American boy (Jahzir Bruno) orphaned in a car wreck at the outset and sent to live with his firm-but-fair grandma (Octavia Spencer), who gently coaxes him out of the shell of his grief. It's a serviceable and sumptuous, reasonably scary adaptation that adds some promising updates and features a fine cast, though struggles to emerge from the shadow of both the source material and Nicolas Roeg's 1990 version. Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer battle it out in Robert Zemeckis's crack at the Roald Dahl classicįamily film fixture Robert Zemeckis turns his hand to a spot of light horror in a take on Roald Dahl's classic 1983 children's story that, in its demented (ultimately grotesque) glamourpusses, evokes his own Death Becomes Her.
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