Practical Magic (1998) There's a little witch in every woman
For two sisters from a family of witches, falling in love is the trickiest spell of all.
Nicole plays Gillian 'Gilly' Owens
Practical Magic tells the story of two sisters, Sally and Gillian, who have the gift of magic. But they have the family
curse, in which any man that falls in love with one of them will die an untimely death. Brought up by their aunts, Sally
and Gilly adopt different attitudes towards their magical abilities - Gilly embraces it, but Sally chooses to live her
life as normally as possible. When Gilly gets into trouble with a man, Sally must save her sister, and try and battle
the curse when she meets the man she wished for as a child...
Information Released: US- 16th October 1998; UK- 22nd January 1999; Australia- 4th February 1999 Directed by: Griffin Dunne Co-stars: Sandra Bullock (Sally Owens), Stockard Channing (Frances Owens), Dianne Wiest (Aunt Bridget 'Jet' Owens),
Goran Visnjic (Jimmy Angelov), Aidan Quinn (Officer Gary Hallet), Evan Rachel Wood (Kylie Owens),
Alexandra Artrip (Antonia Owens) Genre: Fantasy/Mystery/Drama/Romance
Filming: Washington, USA Budget: $60,000,000 Nicole's salary: $6,000,000 Box Office: UK- £2,987,705; USA- $46,611,204. Made £1,001,536 in it's opening weekend in the UK showing on 284 screens,
and $13,104,694 in it's opening weekend in the US on 2,652 screens. Runtime: 103mins / 1hr 43mins
Trivia
[1] Nicole and Sandra became good friends while filming, and went out drinking together on many occasions.
[2] Continuity error - After placing Jimmy's body on the table, Gillian unbuttons his shirt and cuts
his undershirt. In the next shot of him, his undershirt is uncut and shirt is buttoned up.
[3] When asked why Sandra and Nicole were chosen to play sisters when they obviously looked nothing alike,
Griffin Dunne said that when he researched historical witches, witch siblings often looked nothing alike.
Quotes: Cast & Crew
Nicole - "It's hard to analyze. I think it's because we have the same sense of humor. As long as I have that with someone
then ultimately, everything else just falls into place." [on Sandra Bullock]
Nicole - "Gillian is the wild one. She chooses to leave home because the people there ridicule her and her sister for
being different. I think that is one of the more important themes that Alice looks at in her book -- that you should
embrace your eccentricity and individuality rather than attempt to conform to what people expect you to be."
Nicole - "Sometimes you work with people that you wouldn't want to hang out with off the set. Sandy and I genuinely
enjoyed each other. She just came over recently to see me in the play here in London, just for one night. She came all
that way, so she's a really good friend."
Nicole - "Gillian has this thing where she loves big, gorgeous men, and that's what Goran is!"
Nicole - "I've mainly got the chance to work with men in my career, so the idea of working with Sandy on
something like this, I thought 'wow that sounds fun, I wanna work with a girl!'"
Nicole - "It's fun working with a director that has a sense of the ridiculous and the sense of macabre."
Nicole -
Denise DiNovi (producer) - "Nicole is someone who can play extreme, complex characters and bring them to life in a way
that they seem totally real and not fabrication. She is also very magnetic and compelling, which Gillian has to be."
Griffin Dunne - "Sandra and Nicole complement each other very well. They play off each other even though they have very
different energies. They want to get across, as I do, not just the tender warm aspects of families, but the stuff we are
more familiar with -- the fighting, the backbiting, the conflicts, the insecurities and the frailties. They are both
fearless actresses who are willing to try anything."
Sandra Bullock - "We have a really strong affection for one another and I don't know where that came from. There's a
connection and it produced the chemistry we needed to play sisters."
Griffin Dunne - "They just have this great chemistry!" [on Nicole and Sandra]
Sandra Bullock - "Our energies are so opposite we needed what the other person had." [on why they worked so well together]
Griffin Dunne - "This woman is really funny! She's got a really fun, great, wild side - just like Gillian - and I thought
I've never Nicole be able to do that in a movie. She dances and sings, and jumps around and acts incredibly silly, and
also does the other thing that Nicole I think is very well known for, y'know, extraordinary depth."
Sandra Bullock - "I've never met anyone who works as hard as she does."
Sandra Bullock - "We have a really strong affection for one another and I don't know where that came from. There's a
connection and it produced the chemistry we needed to play sisters."
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Practical Magic tells the story of two sisters, Sally and Gillian, who have the gift of magic. But they have the family
curse, in which any man that falls in love with one of them will die an untimely death. Brought up by their aunts, Sally
and Gilly adopt different attitudes towards their magical abilities - Gilly embraces it, but Sally chooses to live her
life as normally as possible. When Gilly gets into trouble with a man, Sally must save her sister, and try and battle
the curse when she meets the man she wished for as a child...
