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No./ 11 Witches: the next generation

THE LOCATION

nstead of the British seaside of Roald Dahl’s novel, we’re in 1960s Alabama. Think spooky Southern Gothic, with Spanish moss on the trees and racism in the air. Robert Zemeckis figured that setting the book in the 1980s, when it was written, would make this a

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