The Witches of Eastwick

Director: George Miller

1987 / 118min / 35mm

The battle of the sexes takes a supernatural turn in this devilishly delicious adaptation of the John Updike bestseller of the same name, in which a trio of single women living in small-town Rhode Island (Pfeiffer, Cher, and Susan Sarandon) are seduced in turns by a mysterious stranger newly arrived in town (Jack Nicholson, giving peak Nicholson), a self-proclaimed “horny little devil” who unleashes their heretofore dormant capacity for witchcraft—and, to his great regret, their capacity for revenge. A fleet-footed and often hysterical sex comedy, directed with dash by Mad Max’s Miller, in his first production on American soil.

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