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Plot summary
Isabel is a witch living in the San Fernando Valley who wants to set her powers aside and live like an ordinary person. Jack Wyatt is an actor trying to restart his career with a television remake of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, playing the mortal Darrin himself, and he insists on an unknown for the part of Samantha. He and Isabel meet by chance in a bookstore, where he has just sat through unsuccessful auditions, and she calls to mind the Samantha of the original series. She auditions, and the producers and writers are impressed enough that she joins the show; Iris Smythson comes aboard as Endora. Isabel has her neighbor Maria for company, while her father Nigel keeps appearing to urge her to come home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bewitched (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jim Carrey was in talks to play Darrin in Bewitched, and several writers, including Laurice Elehwany, made changes to the script before Nora Ephron was ultimately hired in 2003.
- Bewitched spent nearly a decade in development, and an earlier adaptation had Rob Morrow and Cynthia Nixon in talks to star, directed by actor Ted Bessell and written by Broadway's Douglas Carter Beane; Bessell died in 1996.
