The Witches

The Witches (also known as Roald Dahl's The Witches), is a 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film and stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, and Jahzir Bruno, with narration by Chris Rock.

In 1968, young Charlie Hansen lives with his grandmother Agatha in Demopolis, Alabama, after a car accident kills his parents in Chicago. Gradually, she cheers him up by buying him a pet mouse, whom he names Daisy.  On a trip to the store, Charlie encounters a witch trying to lure him with a snake and a caramel. Agatha's presence frightens the witch away, and she tells Charlie a witch cursed her childhood friend Alice into spending the rest of her life as a chicken.

Agatha, developing a cough she believes to have been brought on by a witch and explaining that witches never leave once they find a child, takes Charlie to stay in the Grand Orleans Imperial Island hotel, where her cousin Eston is the executive chef. Agatha teaches Charlie to distinguish witches from ordinary women: they wear gloves to hide their bird-like claws and wigs which give them rashes to cover their baldness; they have square feet with no toes, mouths that can open nearly to their ears, and extendable nostrils for sniffing out children.

Wanting to let Agatha rest, Charlie takes Daisy to the hotel's ballroom for training, meeting a gluttonous but friendly boy named Bruno on the way. When a group of witches, including the one from Demopolis, enters the ballroom, Charlie hides under the stage. He overhears their all-powerful leader, the Grand High Witch of All the World, instructing the witches to open candy stores, planning to give the world's children candy laced with Formula #86: Delayed-Action Mouse Maker, a potion that will transform them into mice. Bruno, who earlier received a Swiss chocolate bar infused with the potion from the Grand High Witch, arrives, distracting the Grand High Witch from finding Charlie. Transfixed by the Grand High Witch's offer of more chocolate, Bruno is transformed into a mouse by the delayed effect of the potion. He escapes to the vent where Charlie and Daisy are hiding, revealing them to the Grand High Witch, who is able to transform Charlie into a mouse, before they escape the ballroom through the vent, injuring the Grand High Witch in the process.

The three mice reach Charlie's hotel room and tell Agatha about the witches' plan. They learn the Grand High Witch is staying in the room below and that Daisy was once an orphaned young human girl named Mary. Charlie sneaks into the Grand High Witch's room, with the help of Agatha, and obtains a bottle of potion, evading the suspicious Grand High Witch and her cat, Hades, but Agatha is unable to engineer a cure from it. Charlie infiltrates the kitchen and drops the bottle into the pot of pea soup for the witches' dinner.

You will love this remake of the 1983 version starring Anjelica Houston. Previously owned, excellent condition.