Magic
The film tells the story of Corky (Anthony Hopkins), a failed magician, who is at the mercy of his abrasive dummy named Fats while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
25 November 1928, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 July 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 March 1951, Lakeview, Michigan, USA
14 December 1898, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
20 May 1921, Plymouth, England, UK
30 October 1938, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
31 October 1942, Peoria, Illinois, USA
14 August 1908, Detroit, Michigan, USA
July 23, 1920
28 April 1941, Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands län, Sweden
7 June 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 November 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2 September 1940, Hollywood, California, USA
14 July 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 December 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
June 12, 2005
Still creepy story of Hopkins and his psychotic dummy.
November 20, 2003
Good cast can't keep this thriller afloat.
November 05, 2003
It's no dummy!
March 15, 2006
A very well-crafted suspense-thriller that unfolds with one dramatically tense scene after another. Hopkins is superb.
January 08, 2007
Magic has few scary moments and is really a rather maudlin examination of a nervous breakdown.
May 09, 2006
Odd combo, but it's creepy and generally works.
July 09, 2006
It makes you feel uncomfortable in your own skin.
June 24, 2006
A hammed-up version of the old chestnut about the ventriloquist who is 'taken over' by his dummy, clumsily adapted by William Goldman from his own novel.
October 07, 2005
Very likely to produce nightmares.
May 09, 2005
Magic is neither eerie nor effective. It is, however, very heavy of hand.
June 21, 2006
Because of Hopkins, because of Ann-Margret (who hardly looks like that Ann-Margret, adeptly proving herself as an occasional dramatic actress), and because of Burgess Meredith as well as Fats the dummy, "Magic" is one of the top-notch films of the 1970s.
March 26, 2009
In adapting his own best-seller, William Goldman has opted for an atmospheric thriller, a mood director Richard Attenborough fleshes out to its fullest.
