Practical Magic

Continuity mistake: When Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are getting ready to bring back Nicole Kidman's jerk boyfriend from the dead, they are going to put him on a counter that has towels and other stuff on it. The camera shows them picking him up and putting him on the counter, and when they do, the towels and stuff are all gone, without them clearing it off. (00:36:40)

Continuity mistake: When they do the spell on Nicole's boyfriend, Nicole cuts his top, then in the next scene, it's a different, buttoned up top, not the one that Nicole cut in the first scene.

Continuity mistake: Aunt Jet picks up a broom after Sally and Gillian banish Jimmy's spirit from Gillian's body. In the next shot, where the spirit is swirling near the ceiling, she is not holding the broom but has it again in the shot following.

Continuity mistake: When Jillian is running away with her boyfriend for the first time, when they are getting ready to exchange blood for bonding, the camera cuts to her boyfriend on the ground below the deck. Right as Jillian says "honey", he begins taking out his pocket knife. When Jillian says "need your pocket knife", he has already thrown it up to them.

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Suggested correction: She says "honey" and he starts taking it out. She says "I need your pocket knife" and then he throws it up.

Continuity mistake: When Sandra just goes to her shop after staying in bed for a few days she places a bottle on the shelf, but in the next scene it's gone.

Continuity mistake: When Aidan Quinn is questioning Sandra, as he is coming out of the herb house, he pulls out the letter that Sandra wrote Gillian. In one shot his hand and the envelope is facing one direction, in the next shot, they are facing a different direction.

Continuity mistake: Just before Sally and Aidian kiss for the first time, (in the bedroom) they are talking about the disappearance of Gillian's boyfriend. There's one shot where Sally tucks some of her hair behind her right ear. She leaves a clump of it in front of her ear. A shot or so later, a lot less hair is in front of her ear. Just before they kiss, the large clump is back.

Continuity mistake: When Sally and Aiden are talking, Sally takes his badge. It's in her hand in one shot as she's explaining about it's symbolism and in the next, he's holding it.

Continuity mistake: When all of the women come to form the coven to drive the ghost out of Nicole Kidman, all of the women are standing holding the brooms. When Nicole gets up and rushes at them, all of the brooms are on the floor, and the women are standing back from them. Next scene, they are holding them again.

Continuity mistake: When they have just swept the ashes from the boyfriend onto the grass, Gillian and Sally grab the boiling pot with pot holders. They keep them on top, but use bare hands to help pour it.

Continuity mistake: When Aidan Quinn is showing the letter to Sandra Bullock as he leaves the herb garden, the first shot is him tucking the envelope into his inner pocket in his jacket. The next shot, his hands are on his hips. The third shot, he's still tucking it away before he puts his hands on his hips.

Continuity mistake: After they poison Jimmy and are riding in the car and when they get to the kitchen, Nicole Kidman's hair style changes back and forth between shots. Sometimes it's parted and pulled slightly behind her ears and others it's not.

Continuity mistake: During the Phone Tree meeting Sally places a spell on a woman that's talking trash about Gillian. When the woman flinches from what sounds like a whack on her hand, you can see Nicole Kidman's hair pushed back behind her ears, when they show a close up of her and Sandra Bullock right afterwards, Nicole's hair isn't behind her ears and looks like it never was.

Continuity mistake: In an early scene where the young Sally and Gillian are walking up to the aunts' house, the girls shown are the ones that play Sally's daughters and they're wearing velvet dresses. When they reach the aunts, the film shows the young girls that are actually playing young Sally and Gillian and they're wearing sailor type school girl uniforms.

Continuity mistake: Gilly is on the floor inside the circle formed by the other women to prevent her from escaping. Sally falls on her knees to be close to her sister. When the camera shows Gilly from Sally's position her head is turned right, when they are both in the shot Gilly's head is turned left.

Continuity mistake: Where did Sally get the bottle of rum since Gillian broke it in the sink in an early scene in margarita time? Same bottle with the same amount of rum in it.

Continuity mistake: When Sally is talking to Gillian after the first failed exorcism attempt, we see Sarah is wearing white shoes; but when they are pouring the potion on the grave, she has brown sandals.

Continuity mistake: When Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are getting ready to bring back Nicole Kidman's jerk boyfriend from the dead, they are going to put him on a counter that has towels and other stuff on it. The camera shows them picking him up and putting him on the counter, and when they do, the towels and stuff are all gone, without them clearing it off. (00:36:40)

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Sally Owens: Louis L'amour, who, by the way, was not a foreigner! He was from North Dakota, you asshole.

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Trivia: The production hired a practising witch to be a consultant. However, after being hired, the witch began making insane demands, including wanting a percentage of the gross, some merchandizing rights, and an additional $250,000 on top of what she was already being paid. After the production understandably refused, she began screaming in tongues over the phone and "cursed" the production, then began lawyering up. The studio heads freaked out, and paid her just to get her to leave the production.

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Question: Near the end when Sally is in the circle with Gilly, there is a series of flashbacks. There is a shot of a woman with curly shoulder length hair surrounded by white. Who is she? She's not their mother as she has long straight hair.

Answer: She is the one from the opening sequence, their "great, great, great" grandmother who started the whole "curse" thing.

Bruce Minnick

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