Practical Magic Is a Washington Movie

Close your eyes and picture the distant past. Spaghetti straps and boyfriend jeans, Stevie Nicks on the radio. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in their rom-com era. It’s 1998, and the movie is Practical Magic. The one thing you might not know: The 25-year-old film belongs in the Washington film canon.

At the time, the adaptation of an Alice Hoffman novel wasn’t necessarily memorable, though its box office take, about $128 million in today’s dollars, is more than Cocaine Bear or the last Magic Mike movie made this year. Its cast was solid—even the kids were played by future notables Evan Rachel Wood and Camilla Belle—and

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