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The Witches
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2278
- IMDb #2698
- Google retired #3601
- Rotten Tomatoes #1420
- Metacritic #744
- Letterboxd #2472
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #557
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2570
- Metacritic Critics #825
- Metacritic Audience #823
- Criticker #1844
- Douban #1420
- Kinopoisk #2533
- AlloCiné #3033
- Trakt #3225
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 48, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94. Critics average 86, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy goes to a English seaside hotel with his grandmother. He accidentally stumbles into a convention of witches, who are revealed to be real and have a vile plan to turn all children into mice. The Grand High Witch demonstrates her formula on him, and he must now, as a mouse, work with his grandmother to thwart their scheme.
Details
- Director
- Nicolas Roeg
- Writer
- Allan Scott
- Based on
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Released
- 25 May 1990
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $11.0M
- Box office
- $15.4M
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