Gillian Holroyd é apenas uma comum e moderna bruxa vivendo em um apartamento em Nova York com Pyewacket, seu gato Siamês. Mas um dia um bonito editor, Shep Henderson, entra em seu prédio para ser um novo vizinho. Gillian decide que ela quer ficar com ele. Especialmente porque acontece que ele vai se casar com Merle Kittridge, uma velha e venenosa Amiga Por Correspondência de Gillian da época de faculdade. Assim, Gillian lança um feitiço sobre Shep. Mas seus poderes correm o risco de serem exorcizados por algo mais forte do que a rotina de sortilégios, o Amor.
Pyewacket Pudding.
It's one of those films that we all have, the movie that features actors you simply adore, but no matter how many times you watch it in the mystical hope that it will change and get better, but it never does. Bell Book & Candle is my pet frustration.
Fronted by James Stewart and Kim Novak, supported by Jack Lemmon & Elsa Lanchester, this screen version of the theatre play has a modicum of charm befitting the story of a publisher who falls under the love spell of a modern day witch, but ultimately it plays out as dull.
It looks nice, both in art direction and colour photography, Jimmy and Kim are pleasant of course, and Elsa, Hermione Gingold and Pyewacket the cat are bundles of fun, yet the belly laughs are missing, a need to care about the lovelorn and the restless sadly some place else.
I have a framed still of Jimmy & Kim from this movie hanging in my hallway, every time I pass it I point my finger at it and swear with sadness in my heart. I love those guys you see, the movie not so much... 5/10
