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The Witches
Why this pick
Like the 1989 animated The BFG, it turns a child’s-eye encounter with frighteningly strange adults into a darkly playful Roald Dahl fantasy.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1989 1h 27m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The BFG
AnimationFamilyFantasy
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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James and the Giant Peach
Why this pick
Its orphaned child hero, grotesque grown-ups and escape into an enormous fantastical world echo The BFG’s mix of menace, wonder and tenderness.
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The Secret of NIMH
Why this pick
A richly hand-drawn children’s fantasy with genuine peril, an intimate young protagonist and a shadowy magical world that never talks down to its audience.
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The Iron Giant
Why this pick
A lonely child’s unlikely friendship with a huge, feared outsider delivers the same gentle emotional core beneath a more suspenseful adventure.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Why this pick
For another 1980s fantasy overflowing with outsized beings and handmade visual imagination, this offers whimsical storytelling with a darker, eccentric edge.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Sophie is a young orphaned girl living in the orphanage of the cantankerous and abusive Mrs. Clonkers. One night, Sophie wakes up and goes to look through the window but sees a cloaked giant man blowing something through a trumpet into a bedroom window down the street; whereupon the giant notices her and snatches her to the realm of Giant Country.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
David Jason
The BFG
Amanda Root
Sophie