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On this episode of Why Watch That:FIRST LOOKRoald Dahl’s The WitchesWebsite: HBO MaxSynopsis: Reimagining Dahl’s beloved story for a modern audience, Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe — undercover — to carry out her nefarious plans.Release Date: October 22, 2020 (HBO Max); October 28 (in theaters internationally)Directed by: Robert ZemeckisScreenplay by: Robert Zemeckis, Kenya Barris, and Guillermo del ToroBased on the book by Roald DahlStarring: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenowet