Teen Witch

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Teen Witch

PG-13,

1990,

1h 45m,

Fantasy

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High-school nerd Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) learns from psychic Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein) that she's possessed with magical abilities that will begin working on her 16th birthday. When the prophecy proves true, the teenager uses her new powers to get what she's always desired: popularity. After getting back at some bullies, the young witch casts a spell over hunky jock Brad Powell (Dan Gauthier). But Louise soon learns that getting what you want isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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Critics Consensus

While drenched in upbeat messages and heart, the wonders of high school, love, and magic often don't meld well enough for this inoffensive Teen Witch.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Feb 16, 2024

Whatever points Teen Witch gets for its upbeat message has to be penalized by the plebeian way it is handled on several fronts.

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Chris Willman

Los Angeles Times

Feb 16, 2024

Zelda also has the movie's worst line: "The real magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen!" Guess the makers of Teen Witch just didn't believe in themselves enough.

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Ada Calhoun

Austin Chronicle

Feb 16, 2024

Teen Witch is an all-around delicious flick, both despite and because of the afterschool special quality of its message.

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Roger Hurlburt

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Feb 16, 2024

1/4

Dull, talky and jam-packed with terrible performances, who knows which witch is which in the whammyless Teen Witch.

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Feb 16, 2024

2/4

All in all, Teen Witch is harmless fun. I can think of worse ways to spend two hours at the movies -- a lot of them.

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Janice Drickey

L.A. Weekly

Feb 16, 2024

The message of the well-constructed but unsurprising script by Robin Menken and Vernon Zimmerman is practically lit in neon, and fails to adequately address the cruelty of the "haves" vs, "have-nots" caste system.

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Han L

Apr 11, 2019

The epitome of an 80s movie. Aged so poorly, but has one of the funniest rap scenes ever!

Draco R

Oct 31, 2018

Greatest teen Halloween movie everrrrrr! #youcangiveallthatyoucanbutyouwillnevertopthat

Albus S

Oct 28, 2018

"Teen Witch" is a bad movie for sure, but this "Teen Wolf" wannabe, which does a gender and monster swap of the "Teen Wolf story, is wildly charming for its 80s nostalgia value. Seriously, the entire movie looks like it a Jordache Jeans commercial. The story, much like "Teen Wolf," finds a dorky teen, Robyn Lively, who as she comes of age discovers she's a witch (instead of a werewolf). She then uses her newfound powers to find popularity and boys, but with a similar dilemma to that in "Teen Wolf" of whether she should abandon her real friends for the stuck-up in-crowd. If done right, this type of story can be enjoyable (i.e. "Can't Buy Me Love" or "Pretty in Pink" or even "Teen Wolf"), but this film lacks good writing, characters, or humor. I was also confused because there are a couple random musical numbers that seem to come out of nowhere, when the film is not really presented as a musical. Strange. "Teen Witch" features terrible 80s music from bands you've never heard of, fabulous 80s outfits and hair, and lots of recognizable character actors who you don't know their names but would immediately recognize (Dick Sargent, Zelda Rubinstein, Shelley Berman, Marcia Wallace, and Joshua John Miller [the creepy kid from "The River's Edge"]), which pretty much took me on a walk down high school memory lane or at least an exaggerate Southern California version of high school, which was more than enough to keep me entertained.

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Poe L

Sep 28, 2018

Really, really bad comedy with music is representative of 1980's teen comedies.

Finn P

Apr 15, 2018

I always have loved this zany 1980s film. It captures perfectly the look and style of that era. The story is hilarious and the performances are a delight.

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Rey W

Mar 10, 2018

I REMEMBER this movie from when i was a kid. I loved it then and i love it now.

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Dorian Walker

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Robyn Lively

Louise Miller

Dan Gauthier

Brad Powell

Joshua John Miller

Richie Miller

Caren Kaye

Margaret Miller

Dick Sargent

Frank Miller

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Synopsis

High-school nerd Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) learns from psychic Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein) that she's possessed with magical abilities that will begin working on her 16th birthday. When the prophecy proves true, the teenager uses her new powers to get what she's always desired: popularity. After getting back at some bullies, the young witch casts a spell over hunky jock Brad Powell (Dan Gauthier). But Louise soon learns that getting what you want isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Director: Dorian Walker
Producer: Alana H. Lambros, Rafael Eisenman
Screenwriter: Robin Menken, Vernon Zimmerman
Production Co: Trans World Entertainment (TWE)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 1990, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 24, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Surround

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