He's turned into a mouse and is forced to fight back against the witches in his new, diminutive state. The witches want to see "every child in the world rubbed out, squashed," and they cook up a simple solution: turn all the earth's children into mice.Īs you may have guessed, the boy - nameless in the original book, called Charlie in this version - is swept up in their scheme. In it, a young orphaned boy and his loving grandmother (Jahzir Bruno and Octavia Spencer here) end up at a resort at the same time that an international coven of witches are holding a convention. The following contains spoilers for the 2020 version of "The Witches," including its ending.įor much of the film, Robert Zemeckis' new adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book "The Witches," now streaming on HBO Max, feels far safer than its 1990 predecessor.
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