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Thirty-one years ago, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen brewed up Double, Double Toil and Trouble.
By this time, the past 7-year-old twins were already the youngest self-made millionaires. After launching their careers astatine the ripe aged property of 8 months with the relation of Michelle Tanner connected Full House, Mary-Kate and Ashley rapidly grew their empire. The child-stars-turned-fashion designers created their ain institution Dualstar, which would spell connected to nutrient each of their straight-to-VHS movies—including, of course, Double, Double Toil and Trouble.
The TV movie premiered connected ABC October 30, 1993 and has gone connected to go a somewhat overlooked Halloween film, speech from the Olsen twins' loyal fanbase who grew up obsessed with the sisters' songs and movies. But Double, Double Toil and Trouble is filled with tons of '90s nostalgia, WTF moments and a formed that besides includes Eric McCormack (though helium antecedently admitted he'd ne'er really seen the film). "No, I ne'er have," the Will & Grace alum, who wasn't a large instrumentality of his longer 'do successful the movie, told Entertainment Weekly successful 2021. "It's hard to spell backmost and see...certain looks. And also, I was astir apt a year-and-a-half into television, truthful I was inactive trying to accommodate my signifier acting to the camera. Maybe I was terrified to spell backmost and ticker it."
With Halloween close astir the corner, let's these Double, Double Toil and Trouble...memories bubble to the surface.
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1. The rubric of the movie comes consecutive from Act IV, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, naturally.
2. This is the logline for the movie, per IMDb: "On Halloween night, 2 precocious small girls effort to prevention their parents from the greedy clutches of their nasty aged Capitalist aunt. Magic abounds and they conscionable caller albeit unusual friends on the way."
3. That "nasty aged Capitalist aunt" is Aunt Agatha, who is really a witch (though she does emotion money). Cloris Leachman chews each of the scenery and past immoderate much for dessert arsenic some Aunt Agatha and Aunt Sophia, the "good" duplicate and witch who is trapped successful a mirror. Fun fact: The archetypal writer of Hocus Pocus actually wrote the relation of Winifred Sanderson with Leachman successful mind. Bette Midler yet got the portion instead, turning successful a genuinely iconic show successful the movie that besides came retired successful 1993.
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4. The begetter of Kelly (Mary-Kate) and Lynn (Ashley) is portrayed by Eric McCormack pre-Will & Grace fame and fundamentally kicks disconnected the parade that is the Olsen twins' streak of blistery fictional dads implicit the years. (Future DILFs see Tom Amandes, Steve Guttenberg, Matt McCoy, etc.)
5. The movie begins with the twins attending a Halloween party, wherever a ample radical of children are treated to a magic amusement by Oscar the Clown (Phil Fondacaro)...and not 1 kid cries successful the beingness of the clown, which we telephone foul.
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6. Later, erstwhile Kelly and Lynn's parents determine to spell to Aunt Agatha's location to inquire for a indebtedness truthful they don't suffer their house, they permission their 7-year-old daughters unattended successful the car. We repeat: 2 7-year-olds were near unattended successful car. (As soon arsenic they are gone, Lynn instantly climbs implicit to the driver's seat, pretending to drive.)
7. The girls past conscionable their 2nd caller friend: Gravedigger (Wayne Robson). Yes, that is the character's credited name, and yes, helium is digging a sedate erstwhile helium meets the girls, spooked by the information that they are twins.
8. When Gravedigger tells the girls the communicative of Agatha and Sophia and the powerfulness of the moonstone, we are treated to flashbacks wherever the Olsens play the younger versions of Leachman's characters. The wigs inactive haunt america to this day.
9. "Mom, erstwhile I get older, tin I get a chemoreceptor job?" A question a 7-year-old calmly asked her parents.
10. The twins caput retired successful questionable costumes (eventually switching with 2 different kids' outfits to tally disconnected connected their escapade without being detected).
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11. Agatha keeps her precious wealth successful a literal sack...and it's each singles. We conjecture this is what "filthy rich" radical do? Can immoderate filthy affluent idiosyncratic delight advise?
12. Meet Friend No. 3: aka Mr. N (played by Designing Women prima Meshach Taylor, who passed distant successful 2014). Mr. N, abbreviated for Plato Naufzagger, is simply a antheral who lives nether the span successful municipality and decides to tag on with the girls erstwhile helium hears astir the moonstone, which could beryllium worthy a beauteous penny. Even though helium initially wants to bargain a moonstone from 2 7-year-olds, helium yet learns relationship is the astir invaluable treasure of all.
13. The caller trio decides to sojourn psychic Madame Lulu. During this meeting, viewers larn Mr. N is not truly British (but uses a fake accent anyhow for the remainder of the film) and the mean is not truly Romanian, but from Brooklyn. Stakes.
14. The 1993 graphics and peculiar effects were besides truly something.
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15. For immoderate reason, Mr. N has "SOLE" written connected the bottommost of his shoe, which we spot erstwhile he, Lynn and Kelly hitch a thrust connected the backmost of a pumpkin truck. During the drive, the girls sing the not-at-all-annoying tune "I cognize a opus that gets connected everybody's nerves," which they decidedly sang behind the scenes arsenic well.
16. After causing a immense pumpkin crash, Mr. N and the girls randomly stumble upon a precise tiny location successful the mediate of the woods that would astir decidedly beryllium featured connected an HGTV amusement today. (It's location No. 3...yet determination are nary others astir and nary street, so...?) This is wherever we reunite with Oscar, present retired of his clown costume and make-up, who agrees to articulation their escapade aft proceeding the full witch backstory—no questions asked.
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17. While getting acceptable for the gathering, a.k.a. the yearly witch meet-up, Agatha takes retired a conduit of mascara, which someway colors her full caput of hairsbreadth black. (Can't she conscionable usage her powers for this? Just sayin'!)
18. Oh, it's astir apt important to enactment that the moonstone utilized arsenic a prop is green, which is the chromatic of feminine energy. It tin support women and children, stimulate affectional equilibrium and self-love, and assistance relieve menstrual cramps. (We'll instrumentality the lot!)
19. After the radical steals the moonstone (by having Oscar beryllium connected Mr. N's shoulders and unreal to beryllium a precise almighty being who could treble its powers if Agatha conscionable handed it over), the witches pursuit them and 1 trailing down yells, "I'm successful heels, ya know?" Reader, she is not successful heels.
20. HOURS aft their kids person switched costumes and tally disconnected to find a witches gathering truthful they tin bargain a moonstone and prevention their location from foreclosure (you know, casual), the parents of the twelvemonth recognize Kelly and Lynn are gone. And erstwhile they spell to the cops, the serviceman is waaay excessively chill astir 2 7-year-old twins being missing, telling them to conscionable retrace their trick-or-treating way and travel backmost to record a Missing Person study astatine the 24-hour mark.
21. OK, hole for the instrumentality of Gravedigger, who yet joins successful connected the escapade erstwhile helium happens to unrecorded successful a billboard precisely supra the witches' gathering. Listen, they had 90 minutes to cram each this successful and sometimes corners request to beryllium cut. Just spell with it.
22. After Lynn is taken by Agatha, the radical heads backmost to her location with the moonstone to effort and escaped Aunt Sophia. But determination is lone 1 model unfastened astatine the precise apical of the house, truthful there's lone 1 happening to do: Blow up each balloon Oscar has successful his clown car and alert him close up there.
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23. Thanks to the powerfulness of duplicate love, Kelly and Lynn are capable to escaped Sophia from the reflector and banish Agatha into to halt her wicked ways. Their parents amusement up soon after.
24. Aunt Sophia, precocious connected getting retired of the reflector aft astir 7 years, tells everyone: "This is simply a 2nd location for each of us. We're a household now."
25. This TV movie is Emmy-nominated, folks: Composer Richard Bellis was up for Outstanding Individual Achievement successful Music Composition for a Miniseries oregon a Special.
(This communicative was primitively published Oct. 30, 2018 astatine 11:54 a.m. PST.)
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