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30 May 1997 (USA)
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In the world of magic, the hand is quicker than the eye and love is the wild card.
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Set in the 1950s, Rough Magic tells the story of what happens when a pretty apprentice magician goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé...
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Unfocused Potential
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bridget Fonda | ... | Myra |
 | Russell Crowe | ... | Alex Ross |
 | Jim Broadbent | ... | Doc Ansell |
 | D.W. Moffett | ... | Cliff Wyatt |
 | Kenneth Mars | ... | Magician |
 | Paul Rodriguez | ... | Diego |
| Andy Romano | ... | Clayton |
 | Richard Schiff | ... | Marvin Wiggins |
| Euva Anderson | ... | Tojola, Diego's Wife |
 | Michael Ensign | ... | Powerbroker |
| Gabriel Pingarrón | ... | Telegraph Man (as Gabriel Pingarrón González) |
| Santos Morales | ... | Policeman #1 |
| Mark Del Castillo Morante | ... | Clayton's Assistant |
| René Pereyra | ... | Policeman #2 |
| Christopher Otto | ... | Mechanic (as Chris Otto) |
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Miss Shumway jette un sort (France)
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Rated PG-13 for sex-related content and some violence.
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Spain:100 min | UK:104 min | USA:104 min
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The seeds of a good movie are there in "Rough Magic", a film with an excellent cast, an intriguing premise, and a great location. However, these seeds never really germinate, as the film fails to be convincing. As the movie progresses, the characters behave in an increasingly arbitrary manner while the events of the plot become similarly arbitrary. Thus, by the end, my willing suspension of disbelief was completely gone and I found myself bored. I think that the film was trying for the sort of magic realism found in movies like "Like Water for Chocolate", but the key to magic realism lies at least as much in the realism as it does in the magic. While "Like Water for Chocolate" worked because we believed in the characters, "Rough Magic" fails, despite some genuinely entertaining moments, because we don't.
Overall Rating: 1 1/2 stars (out of 4), or 4 (out of 10)