Revealing mistake: In the hotel meeting scene, the Grand High Witch tells the witches they can take their wigs off. When we see the newly bald witches, it is particularly obvious that only the foreground witches are ladies with bald caps - the rest of the witches are bald men. (00:30:10 - 00:31:00)
The Witches (1990)
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Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson
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Grand High Witch: This stinking little carbuncle has had five hundred doses! Aha, we are having Instantaneous action.
Trivia: Roald Dahl hated the ending of the movie so much that he would drive past movie theaters with a megaphone and tell people not to watch it.
Question: When Luke drops formula 86 into the Cress soup, why did the cook witch not turn into a mouse immediately? The Grand High Witch said that more than five doses causes an instant transformation into a mouse and Luke dumped the whole bottle in the soup which contained five hundred doses so the witch should have turned into a mouse immediately.
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Answer: The potion was made for little children, not adults. It would have taken longer to go through their entire system.