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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble is a 1993 Halloween children's TV movie, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
[edit] Synopsis
Don Farmer and his wife Christine are in deep debt and may have to sell their house. But in order to save their home, their twin daughters Kelly and Lynn must rescue the only person who can help the family: their good Aunt Sophia, who has been bewitched and trapped in an eerie netherworld within a mirror by her mean twin sister Agatha (Cloris Leachman in a dual rôle), who is responsible for all the family's money problems thanks to the evil magic powers she has acquired via a magic moonstone she discovered as a child, which once belonged to a witch burnt at the stake hundreds of years before. With some help from children's entertainer Oscar and hobo Mr. N, plus a toy magic wand given to the girls by Oscar which turns out to have unexplained real magical abilities, Kelly and Lynn manage to free Aunt Sophia from the mirror and, by means of a clever trick, turn the tables on the evil Agatha, trapping her in Sophia's place; when the mirror ends up being accidentally knocked over and smashed to pieces, Agatha is left imprisoned in the netherworld forever. Aunt Sophia helps the family pay their debts, which means that they won't have to put their home up for sale after all.
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- Bill Meilen ... Chairperson
- Nora McLellan ... Female cop
- Alex Green ... Pumpkin driver
- Alex Diakun ... Doorman
- Claire Kaplan, Karin Konoval, Glynis Leyshon ... Witches
- Mitch Kosterman ... Cop
- Gary McAteer ... Fred
- Eliza Centenara ... Girl
- Christopher Anderson ... Boy
- Lynda Boyd ... Singer
- Ian Bagg ... Fat man
- Freda Perry ... Girl's mother
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[edit] Trivia
- The title of the movie is a play on the famous line spoken by the three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act IV, Scene I): "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
- The flashback sequence to the events of Agatha and Sophia's childhood – in which they decide to search their house's attic and cellar respectively for the magic moonstone; Agatha finding the moonstone first and keeping it for herself – was shot entirely in black and white, except for a green glow added to the moonstone for the scenes in which it appeared.
- This is the only one of their movies in which Mary-Kate and Ashley play dual rôles: Kelly and Lynn Farmer, plus Young Aunt Sophia and Young Aunt Agatha, respectively.
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