  practical magic is a 1998 american romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by alice hoffman. the film was directed by griffin dunne and stars sandra bullock, nicole kidman, stockard channing, dianne wiest, aidan quinn and goran visnjic. the film score was composed by alan silvestri. bullock and kidman play sisters sally and gillian owens, who have always known they were different from each other. raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typicalâtheir aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. but the invocation of the owens' sorcery also carries a priceâsome call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet sally and the fiery gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that could take away all the owen's lives. ==plot== after the deaths of their parents, gillian and sally owens come to live with their aunts jet and frances. all the owens women are powerful witches, and all are under a magical curse: any man loved by an owens woman will die tragically. to protect herself from the curse, sally casts a spell on herself to insure that she will only fall in love with a man that cannot possibly exist. when the girls are teenagers, gillian runs away to travel the country, indulging in numerous love affairs and using her magic wantonly. back home, sally marries, only to be heartbroken a few years later when the curse strikes again, killing her husband. sally returns to the aunts' house with her own daughters kylie and antonia in tow. she vows that the girls will live a normal life with no magic. on the other side of the country, gillian falls in love with handsome
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