The Witches Is a movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1983 childrens book which was first adapted to screenplay in 1990. The movie begins with a narrator lets call him Hero (Chris Rock) telling the story of how he encountered witches as a little boy. In 1968 when he was 8 (Jahzir Bruno) he lost his parents in a car accident and he went to live with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) in a small town in Alabama. Unknowingly to them there was a witch living near by and apparently children smell repulsive to witches so she smelt him. The witch approached him at a local market and asked him if he wants a piece of candy in a very creepy and scary way. He tells his grandmother who developed a bad cough about his encounter later that day and she told him that the woman he met was not an ordinary woman but a witch. His grandmother also narrates the story of how when she was little a witch turned her best friend into a chicken.
She goes further to tell him about the characteristics of witches and tells him that they were gloves because they have claws not hands, wigs and hats because they are bald, and make up to disguise their elongated mouth. Scared that the witch may come after them again his grandmother booked a room in a fancy hotel because she thinks they would be safe there because witches only prey on the unnoticed. Not long after arriving at the hotel, Hero finds out that the group of women who are allegedly there for a child-welfare conference are actually witches who are led by their leader The Grand High Witch (Anne Hathaway) who has a plan to turn children into mice with a potion and then kill them. Unfortunately, he could not save himself or his new friend Bruno from the witches and they were turned into mice. So with the help of his grandmother and his pet mice Mary who was also a human child turned mice a few months ago they team up and try to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan. Do they succeed or are they killed?
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