Practical Magic opening scene - Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 For more than 200 years, we Owens women have been blamed for
00:23 everything that has ever gone wrong in this town.
00:27 >> Is that why people hate us so much, Aunt Frances?
00:30 >> They don't hate us, sweetheart.
00:32 We just, we make them a little nervous.
00:35 >> Let's face it, Jet, we Owens women have always created a stir.
00:38 It all began with your ancestor Maria.
00:43 She was a witch.
00:46 The first in our family.
00:47 And you, my darlings, are the most recent in a long and distinguished line.
00:52 >> Is that why they wanted to hang her?
00:54 Because she was a witch?
00:55 >> Well, the fact that our Aunt Maria was a bit of a heartbreaker didn't help.
01:00 Nor did it help that most of her lovers had wives on the hanging committee.
01:04 But no, I don't think it was either of those reasons.
01:09 They feared her because she had a gift.
01:12 A power that has been passed on to you children.
01:18 She had the gift of magic.
01:23 [MUSIC]
01:33 And it was this very gift that saved her life.
01:41 [MUSIC]
01:51 [LAUGH]
01:58 >> She was banished to this very island.
02:00 With her unborn child growing inside her belly, she waited for
02:06 her lover to rescue her, but he never came.
02:09 No one came.
02:12 In a moment of despair, she cast a spell upon herself
02:19 that she would never again feel the agony of love.
02:23 But as her bitterness grew, the spell turned into a curse.
02:29 A curse on any man who dared love an Owens woman.
02:33 [MUSIC]
02:38 >> So is that why Daddy died?
02:40 From the curse?
02:41 >> Yes, my darling.
02:42 [MUSIC]
02:47 >> Your mother knew.
02:50 She heard the beetle ticking for your father's death all day long.
02:54 She knew that when you hear the sound of the death watch beetle,
02:57 the man you love is doomed to die.
03:00 [MUSIC]
03:05 >> But that's how you came to live with us.
03:08 We tucked you into our lives, then.
03:10 We've raised you the best way we know how.
03:12 >> In this house, we have chocolate cake for breakfast.
03:17 And we never bother with silly little things like bedtime or brushing our teeth.
03:21 >> But with the sweets comes the sour.
03:24 >> So when you find yourself the center of attention-
03:28 >> Hi, you wanna play?
03:30 >> It's not that they hate you.
03:32 It's that, well, we're different.
03:35 >> You witch!
03:36 Witch, witch, you're a bitch!
03:46 [MUSIC]
03:53 >> Jillian, Sally, you know the only curse in this family?
03:59 Sitting right down there at the end of the table.
04:02 Your Aunt Fanny.
04:03 >> Come on, Jenny, even you have to admit that any man who gets involved with
04:07 an Owens woman is bound to end up six feet under.
04:10 >> Spare me.
04:11 >> What about my poor Ethan?
04:14 >> It was an accident.
04:15 >> It was fate.
04:17 >> It was an accident.
04:18 >> No, no, no, it was fate.
04:19 >> Accident. >> It was fate.
04:20 >> Mommy died of a broken heart, didn't she?
04:24 >> Yes, my darling girl, she did.
04:29 >> Hey, my little witch.
04:37 Let's go inside and do some spells.
04:41 >> What about my homework?
04:43 >> Oh, hush, tosh.
04:45 You both are gonna learn things in this house that you will never learn in school.
04:48 Come on, come on, let's go.
04:50 Go.
04:50 >> Come on, Jilly.