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''The Witches'' is a 1990 fantasy film based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by The Jim Henson Company for Lorimar Film Entertainment and Warner Bros, starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson and Jasen Fisher. As in the novel, the plot takes place in an alternate reality where the world is plagued by infanticidal witches who masquerade as ordinary women, and the efforts of a boy and his grandmother to destroy them after the boy is turned into a mouse by their newest weapon against human children. ==Plot== During a holiday with his grandmother Helga in Norway, nine-year-old American boy Luke Eveshim is told stories about "real" witches, who are demonic females with a genocidal hatred for children due to emitting a foul odor that only they can smell. Helga tells him of a story where her childhood friend was taken and cursed to spend the rest of her life trapped inside a painting. After Luke's parents are killed in a car crash, Helga becomes Luke's legal guardian and they move to England. While building a treehouse, Luke is accosted by a witch, though he sees through her ruse and avoids his potential death. On Luke's birthday, Helga falls ill and is diagnosed with diabetes. Her doctor advises them to spend the weekend by the sea so Helga can recover. They stay at a seaside resort, where Luke meets a gluttonous but friendly boy, Bruno Jenkins, while getting on the bad side of the hotel manager, Mr. Stringer, after his pet mice frighten a maid who is having an affair with the manager. However, also staying at the hotel are all of England's witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with the Grand High Witch, the leader of all the world's witches, attending their conference. Luke inadvertently discovers the witches while playing with his pet mice inside the ballroom, where the witches hold their meeting. The Grand High Witch unveils her latest weapon: a formula to turn children in mice, which they will use on their products when they all open sweet shops and candy stores with the Grand High Witch's counterfeit money. The Grand High Witch lures Bruno into the room, having previously given him chocolate laced with the formula, and he turns into a mouse and flees. Luke attempts to escape, but is also captured and turned into a mouse, though he manages to escape, find Bruno and reunite with Helga. Luke devises a plan to kill the witches by sneaking into the Grand High Witch's room to steal a bottle of the formula. He succeeds while evading the Grand High Witch's cat. Helga attempts to return Bruno to his parents, but they refuse to believe her story, especially due to Mrs. Jenkins' fear of mice. At the witches' dinner, Luke manages to drop the bottle into a pot of watercress soup, which all the witches had ordered. Mr. Jenkins also orders the soup, though Helga stops him at the last minute. The formula turns all of the witches into mice, proving Helga's story about Bruno. As the kitchen staff intervene and start killing the mice, Helga returns Bruno to his parents, while the Grand High Witch is killed by Mr. Stringer after Helga points her out to him. Luke and Helga return to their home, where they are delivered a trunk full of the Grand High Witch's real money and an address book with all the world's witches. Luke, who had secretly arranged for them to receive the money, suggests that they use it to eradicate the world's witches once and for all. That night, the Grand High Witch's assistant Miss Irvine, who had quit her job and escaped the massacre, pays a visit to the house and uses her power to return Luke to human form before leaving to repeat the process with Bruno. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Witches (1990 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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