Where is practical magic based

The victorian-style house was created especially for the movie by Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams buildings and interiors. While the movie was set in New England, the house was actually built on a burial ground on San Juan Island in Washington. The property took six months to build and landscape. As the property was built on a burial ground in a county park the team working on the movie were not allowed to dig. So not to disturb the ground, the house was built on a giant platform.

After the movie was released producers even got a call from Barbara Streisand, who wanted to buy the property. As the Practical Magic house was just a shell, the interior house scenes were shot on a stage set in Los Angeles. It was as if we were both novelists.

The two photos below are taken in the parlor. In an interview with Vulture , director Dunne admitted that although he loved the setting of the story and the book, he was not well-versed in witchcraft. And so, he hired a witch consultant for the film to talk with him about the movie and observe rehearsals with the actresses.

Dunne said although he feels the witch consultant was paid well, she later demanded extra money and a percentage of the film's profits. According to Dunne, when told that pay bump would not be possible, she told a producer, "I'm going to put a curse on you.

I'm putting a curse on this movie, and I'm putting a curse on Griffin. Dunne said he later received a voicemail from her threatening additional curses and speaking in tongues.

He said the woman sued Warner Bros. Although Dunne told Vulture that he didn't "give the curse any power," he held his own exorcism to cover his bases. The film is based on the Alice Hoffman book of the same name.

However, the plot lines and characters vary greatly between the book and the film adaptation. The movie created entirely new plot lines including the infamous midnight-margaritas scene and the film's central curse, which says that any man who falls in love with an Owens woman will die.

The film also focuses heavily on the aunts, who are more minor characters in the book. In fact, the aunts' house is not even a setting in Hoffman's novel. The book also focuses primarily on Sally Owens' daughters, Antonia and Kylie. After the cult-classic success of the film, a few attempts were made to turn it into a series. First, in there was a pilot called " Sudbury.

The second attempt was in when ABC Family now Freeform announced it would be producing a television reboot of the film. This series, too, never made it to the small screen. Luckily for "Practical Magic" fans, a new story about the Owens family is in the works. A character in itself, the enchanting Victorian-style house that Sally and Gillian's eccentric aunts live in has since become a stunning icon of the film.

It's so iconic that, according to the house's designers, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch , musical icon Barbra Streisand called them after seeing the film in hopes of purchasing it. While most of California's set was brought to that location and put inside the building, the image of the building and the interior took almost a year to create. The home, actually just a shell with nothing inside, was only designed for this filming, and after the filming was finished, it was torn down. In downtown Coupeville, Washington, which is a Victorian-era seaside port town situated on the south side of Penn's Cove on Whidbey Island, the small town scenes were shot.

Sally Owens and Gillian Owens were both conscious that they were different from each other. Raised after the death of their parents by their Aunt Frances and Aunt Jet, the sisters grew up in a household which was anything but ordinary. For breakfast, their aunts fed them chocolate cake and showed them the use of practical magic. But the invoking of the sorcery of the Owens brings a price as well; some call it a curse as the men they fall in love with are condemned to die prematurely.

Now, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian, adult women with very different personalities, must use all their abilities to battle the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that threaten the lives of all the women of the Owens.