Genre: Fantasy – Adventure – Comedy – Horror
Release Year: 2020
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Based on: The famous novel by Roald Dahl
🧙♀️ Full Story Summary
A Boy Loses Everything
The Witches (2020) begins in 1968 Alabama with a young boy named Charlie Hansen, whose life changes forever after his parents die in a tragic car accident.
Heartbroken and lonely, Charlie moves in with his loving grandmother, Agatha, who tries to help him recover from the trauma. She buys him a pet mouse named Daisy and slowly helps him smile again.
But Agatha also carries terrifying knowledge about something most people think is just a fairy tale:
👉 Witches are real.
👁️ The Truth About Witches
Agatha explains that witches secretly live among humans disguised as ordinary women.
However, they are actually evil creatures who hate children and want to destroy them.
She teaches Charlie how to recognize a witch:
- They wear gloves to hide sharp claws
- They wear wigs because they are bald
- Their feet have no toes
- They have a strange sense of smell used to detect children
- Their mouths stretch unnaturally wide when angry
Agatha even tells Charlie about her childhood friend Alice, who was cursed by a witch and transformed into a chicken forever.
🏨 Escape to the Hotel
After Charlie encounters a suspicious woman at a store who tries to lure him away with candy and a snake, Agatha realizes witches have already noticed him.
Fearing for his safety, she takes Charlie to a luxurious seaside hotel where her cousin works as the executive chef.
At first, the hotel feels safe and peaceful.
But unknown to them, it is about to become the gathering place for the most dangerous witches in the world.
🧙♀️ The Grand High Witch Arrives
The hotel secretly hosts a meeting of witches led by the terrifying Grand High Witch, played by Anne Hathaway.
She is powerful, cruel, and obsessed with eliminating all children.
Charlie accidentally spies on their secret meeting while training his mouse in the ballroom.
Hidden beneath the stage, he overhears the witches’ horrifying master plan:
👉 Open candy stores across the world and secretly poison candy with Formula 86, a magical potion that transforms children into mice.
🐭 The Transformation
To demonstrate the potion, the Grand High Witch uses it on a greedy boy named Bruno, who instantly transforms into a mouse.
Moments later, Charlie is discovered and transformed as well.
Now trapped in the body of a mouse, Charlie narrowly escapes with Bruno through the hotel vents.
Soon they discover another mouse named Mary, who was once a little girl transformed by witches years earlier.
🧪 The Plan to Stop the Witches
Charlie and the other mouse children return to Agatha and explain the witches’ plan.
Together, they decide to fight back.
Charlie sneaks into the Grand High Witch’s room and steals a bottle of Formula 86.
Their original hope is to create an antidote to turn themselves human again—but Agatha realizes there may be no cure.
Instead, they form a dangerous new plan:
👉 Put the potion into the witches’ soup during dinner.
🍲 Chaos at Dinner
During the hotel banquet, the witches unknowingly consume the poisoned soup.
One by one, they begin transforming into rats.
Panic erupts across the dining room as the witches lose control and chaos spreads everywhere.
But the Grand High Witch survives and attacks Agatha.
⚔️ Final Battle
In the climactic confrontation inside the Grand High Witch’s room, Charlie and the mice launch Formula 86 directly into her mouth using a mousetrap.
The Grand High Witch transforms into a rat herself.
Moments later, her own magical cat turns on her and devours her, finally ending her reign of terror.
🌅 Ending
Although Charlie remains a mouse permanently, he accepts his new life.
Bruno and Mary move in with Charlie and Agatha, becoming a new family together.
Using the Grand High Witch’s stolen fortune and remaining potion, Charlie and Agatha travel the world hunting witches and protecting children everywhere.
✨ Themes & Meaning
The Witches (2020) explores themes such as:
- courage against evil
- family and healing after loss
- friendship and teamwork
- hidden danger beneath appearances
Despite its fantasy setting, the movie also carries emotional themes about grief, survival, and acceptance.
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