Rough Magic
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Time Out says
A cack-handed venture into Romancing the Stone territory (from the James Hadley Chase novel Miss Shumway Waves a Wand), miscast, racist, old-fashioned, and all in all not much fun. Nice scenery, though. As a magician's assistant who takes off for Mexico to consult a shamen, Fonda lacks the charisma to hold this ramshackle lark together, while Peploe's duff special effects aren't exactly magical. The funniest sequence is also the most offensive: a comic-relief Mexican heavy is transformed into a fat sausage, and promptly eaten by a dog. Oh yes, and Bridget lays an egg.Author: TCh
Release details
UK release:
1995
Duration:
105 mins
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Cast:
Paul Rodriguez, DW Moffet, Jim Broadbent, Russell Crowe, Bridget Fonda, Euva Anderson
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Screenwriter:
William Brookfield, Robert Mundy, Clare Peploe, Paul Alexander
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