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Rough Magic is a american film of genre Drama directed by Clare Peploe released in USA on 30 may 1997 with Bridget Fonda
Rough Magic (1995)
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Add to a movie listRough Magic is a 1995 comedy film directed by Clare Peploe and starring Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe and Jim Broadbent. It was based on a novel by James Hadley Chase called "Miss Shumway Waves A Wand", with the screenplay written by Robert Mundi, William Brookfield, and Clare Peploe.
The film is set in the 1950s and focusses on a young magician who leaves her fiancé to find a shaman in Mexico.
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Los Angeles, dans les années 1950. La jeune magicienne Myra Shumway doit épouser le richissime Cliff Wyatt. Cependant, peu avant le mariage celui-ci tue accidentellement le mentor de la jeune femme. Témoin du crime, Myra s'enfuit et trouve refuge à Mexico, où elle rencontre deux personnes qui vont changer son destin : Doc Ansell, un charlatan anglais et Alex Ross, un séduisant reporter américain. Tous trois prennent la route en quête de magie poursuivis par Wyatt.Actors
Bridget Fonda
(Myra Shumway)
Russell Crowe
(Alex Ross)
Jim Broadbent
(Doc Ansell)
Andy Romano
(Clayton)
D. W. Moffett
(Cliff Wyatt)
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