“Magic” is a Horror Drama, screenplay written by William Goldman from his own Novel and Directed by Richard Attenborough.
Magician's
assistant Corky (Sir Anthony Hopkins) performs disastrously at his first solo
appearance, but his mentor, Merlin (E.J. André), tells him he needs to find
some charm, and he chooses to do that by getting a ventriloquist dummy called
“Fats” to improve his act, and within a few years, Corky is at the height of
fame, thanks to his foul-mouthed dummy, however along the way Fats develops a
mind of his own, so much so that Corky’s agent Ben Greene (Burgess Meredith)
wonders who is actually in control of who.
After
refusing the to have a medical exam for a big Network gig he escapes to his old
hometown to get his head straight, and finds the town very changed apart from
his old crush Peggy Ann Snow (Ann-Margret) who he falls in love with anew, much
to the displeasure of Fats and her husband Duke (Ed Lauter).
Goldman's
intensely suspenseful, spooky novel shows up on the big screen unabridged and
complete in all its terrifying splendour.
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