Practical Magic 🎥 1998 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In Massachusetts, the Owens family have been persecuted for over three centuries because their ancestor Maria Owens survived an attempted execution for witchcraft. Heartbroken when the father of her unborn child left her, Maria cast a spell to prevent herself from ever falling in love again. The spell developed into a curse upon Maria’s descendants, dooming any man an Owens woman loves. In the present, Sally and Gillian Owens are taken in by their aunts Frances and Jet after their parents succumb to the Owens curse. As children, Sally and Gillian are frequently ridiculed by the town’s schoolchildren.

Upon witnessing their aunts cast a love spell for a woman obsessed with her beloved, Sally casts a spell on herself to ensure she will only fall in love with a man who possesses certain impossible traits, with the intention of never falling in love. Witnessing the same incident, Gillian cannot wait to fall in love. As teenagers, Gillian elopes with her boyfriend and leaves for Los Angeles. Before she departs, she and Sally make a blood spell to always be faithful to one another. Gillian spends the next decade moving from relationship to relationship across the country, while back in Massachusetts, Sally meets and marries a local named Michael.

They have two daughters, Kylie and Antonia. After a truck fatally hits Michael, Sally and her girls move in with the aunts. Learning that they secretly cast a love spell on her so that she could marry and be happy, Sally says the aunts will never teach her daughters magic. Gillian unexpectedly tells Sally her involvement with a dangerously abusive man named Jimmy Angelov. When Sally arrives to rescue her sister, he takes them hostage in his car. Sally puts belladonna into Jimmy’s tequila to sedate him, but inadvertently kills him instead.

Meet the Cast