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Magic (1978)

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Running Time
1 hour, 47 minutes

Country USA

Production Companies
20th Century Fox, Joseph E. Levine Productions (as Joseph E. Levine)

Studio 20th Century Fox

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Other Titles
• Magic (1978)
• Magic - Die Puppe des Grauens (1979)
• Magic - Eine unheimliche Liebesgeschichte (1979)



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Genre: Thriller, Romance, Drama, Horror, Demonic Possession, Love, Murder, Psychodrama, Witches, Wizards & Magic, Occult, Suspense, Disturbing, Demon

Tagline: Abracadabra, I sit on his knee. Presto, change-o, and now he's me! Hocus Pocus, we take her to bed. Magic is fun...we're dead.

Plot: A screen adaptation of William Goldman's chilling novel of a ventriloquist's dummy that takes over his master's life.

Ventriloquist Corky Fats finally gets the chance to make it big when his agent offers him a lucrative television deal. But Corky turns him down. Choosing instead to return to his boyhood home in the Catskills. There he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, and meets her jealous husband. But things take a wicked turn when Corky's demonic dummy gets into the act. Soon its hard to tell who's the puppet and who's pulling the strings.

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external linkYet another example that even the finest mainstream filmmakers are often incapable of producing excellent horror films. ... The film hints at what "Child's Play" eventually had the balls to show: A possessed dummy on the loose.



 Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Gandhi, Chaplin, A Bridge Too Far
 Written by
William Goldman
The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dreamcatcher
 Cast
Anthony Hopkins
The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon
Ann-Margret
Any Given Sunday, Grumpy Old Men, The Break-Up
David Ogden Stiers
Spirited Away, Beauty and the Beast, Lilo & Stitch
Burgess Meredith
Rocky, Rocky III, Grumpy Old Men
Ed Lauter
Leaving Las Vegas, Seabiscuit, Not Another Teen Movie
E.J. André
Papillon, The Arrangement, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
Jerry Houser
Aladdin, Slap Shot, Seems Like Old Times
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 Music By
Jerry Goldsmith
L.A. Confidential, Alien, The Mummy



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