Mary and the Witch's Flower
2017 ‧ Fantasy/Adventure ‧ 1h 43m

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6.8/10IMDb86%Rotten Tomatoes75%Metacritic
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Young Mary follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest and discovers an old broomstick and the strange Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms once every seven years. Together, the flower and the broomstick whisk Mary above the clouds, and far away to Endor College -- a school of magic run by headmistress Madam Mumblechook and the brilliant Doctor Dee. But there are terrible things happening at the school, and when Mary tells a lie, she must risk her life to try and set things right.
Cast
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Hana Sugisaki
Mary

Kate Winslet

Ruby Barnhill
Mary

Hikari Mitsushima

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Jim Broadbent
Initial release: July 8, 2017 (Japan)
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Based on: The Little Broomstick; by Mary Stewart
Japanese: メアリと魔女の花
Did you know: "Mary and the Witch's Flower" is the sixth-highest-grossing Japanese film of 2017 (US$29.1 million). wikipedia.org
Critic reviews
Yonebayashi pays perfect tribute to Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli with this bewitching and visually dazzling adventure. Studio Ponoc is off to a flying start. Full review
Ben Travis
Empire
Mary and the Witch’s Flower is a charming children’s entertainment that sometimes seems to have been genetically engineered from other such entertainments. Full review
A.O. Scott
The NYTimes
It gets there, eventually, but while Studio Ponoc gets its sea legs it also suffers from a kind of halting rhythm and visual flatness. Full review
Emily Yoshida
Vulture
Mixed in with all the magicking in this animated flick there's a very firm message about rejecting all that spellcasting stuff. Full review
Bob Hoose
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