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A Simple Wish (1997)
Directed by Michael Ritchie
“Anabel made a wish. Murray made a mess.”
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy · 1h 29m
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
Cast
Martin Short
Kathleen Turner
Mara Wilson
Robert Pastorelli
Deborah Odell
Francis Capra
Ruby Dee
Amanda Plummer
Teri Garr
Jonathan Hadary
Alan Campbell
Lanny Flaherty
Crew
- Director
- Michael Ritchie
- Screenplay
- Jeff Rothberg
- Director of Photography
- Ralf D. Bode
- Original Music Composer
- Bruce Broughton
- Editor
- William S. Scharf
- Producer
- Bill Sheinberg, Sid Sheinberg, Jonathan Sheinberg
Details
- Release date
- 1997-07-11
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Bubble Factory, Universal Pictures
- Budget
- $28,000,000
- Box office
- $8,345,056