claim: Practical Magic is based on a novel that has a name.
evidence: Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman .. Practical Magic. Practical Magic ( novel ). Alice Hoffman. Alice Hoffman. romantic comedy film. romantic comedy film. novel of the same name. Practical Magic ( novel ). The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock , Nicole Kidman , Stockard Channing , Dianne Wiest , Aidan Quinn , and Goran Visnjic .. Griffin Dunne. Griffin Dunne. Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock. Nicole Kidman. Nicole Kidman. Dianne Wiest. Dianne Wiest. Stockard Channing. Stockard Channing. Aidan Quinn. Aidan Quinn. Goran Visnjic. Goran Visnjic. The film score was composed by Alan Silvestri .. Alan Silvestri. 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 typical -- their 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 price -- some 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 Owens ' lives .