Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film)

Infobox Film
name = Escape to Witch Mountain


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director = Peter Rader
producer = Joan Van Horn
Scott Immergut
Les Mayfield
George Zaloom
writer = Alexander Key (novel)
Robert M. Young (screenplay)
Peter Rader (teleplay)
starring = Robert Vaughn
Elisabeth Moss
Erik von Detten
Vincent Schiavelli
Brad Dourif
music = Richard Marvin
cinematography = Russ T. Alsobrook
editing = Duane Hartzell
distributor = Buena Vista Television
released = April 29, 1995
runtime = 87 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0112985

"Escape to Witch Mountain" is a 1995 TV movie that is a remake of the 1975 film "Escape to Witch Mountain". The 1995 film was directed by Peter Rader.

Differences from book

The 1995 remake of the film changes several details of the original. The twins, now named Danny and Anna, are found by Zoe Moon (Perrey Reeves) a young waitress, who notices when the children's hands touch, they create a wave of purple energy. However, before she can do anything, the infant children are separated.

Danny (Erik von Detten) spends the next few years of his life between foster families, none of which he feels at home with. Fed up with trying to find a home for him, his social worker decides to leave him at an orphanage with other children, where he can a least make some friends. He is reunited with Anna (Elisabeth Moss), but they are initially not aware of their relationship, despite their odd mannerisms such as arranging the food on their trays exactly the same way. Once they realize they are siblings and possess supernormal powers, they catch the attention of Edward Bolt (Robert Vaughn), a local magnate seeking to develop the nearby Witch Mountain. He decides he wants to take care of them as their foster father; Danny is happy with the development, since he now has his sister and will have a nice home, but Anna is more apprehensive about being adopted by Bolt.

During one of their outings, Anna uses her powers. As a result, the owner of the shop takes them aside, revealing that he has the same powers they do. He goes on to say that there are many more like them, all extraterrestrials from a planet where everyone has a twin. They came to Earth to explore, but all of them separated out of quarrels they experienced on Earth. The shopkeeper has been working to reunite them all and take them home from Witch Mountain. Danny dismisses him as joke, but Anna believes there is some truth to what he is saying. Meanwhile, Zoe sees the purple light from the front of the shop and recognizes it; she confronts the shop owner in hopes of finding the twins she saw, but he dismisses her accusations, though he leaves her some clues as to what will happen to Anna and Danny if she wants to help them.

Bolt reveals that he intends to use Anna and Danny to blast open Witch Mountain without explosives. When Anna discovers the truth, Bolt decides to separate them and use Anna as a hostage so Danny will do as he asks. The two escape with help from Zoe, Bruno the Hermit (Brad Dourif), Bolt's chauffeur Luthor (Brad Dourif), and Anna's friend Zander from the orphanage to Witch Mountain, where the shopkeeper and many other reunited twins are waiting for them, the last two sets of twins, the hermit and the chauffeur are revealed to be twins as well, to join them. Using the shopkeeper's powers, they all return home in pairs, with Anna and Danny going last to close the gate between their home world and Earth. Bolt arrives too late to capture them and the shopkeeper casually comments that he will be waiting for the next group of tourists. The waitress leaves with what she has discovered from the experience.

Cast

*Robert Vaughn as Edward Bolt
*Elisabeth Moss as Anna
*Erik von Detten as Danny
*Lynne Moody as Lindsay Brown
*Perrey Reeves as Zoe Moon
*Lauren Tom as Claudia Ford
*Vincent Schiavelli as Waldo Fudd
*Henry Gibson as Ravetch
*Sam Horrigan as Xander
*Bobby Motown as Skeeto
*Kevin Tighe as Sheriff Bronson
*Brad Dourif as Bruno/Luthor
*John Petlock as Butler
*Beth Colt as Woman officer
*Daniel Lavery as Mr. Flynn
*Jeffrey Lampert as Man on TV
*Ray Lykins as Deputy
*Jennifer and Marissa Bullock as baby Anna

External links

*imdb title|id=0112985|title=Escape to Witch Mountain