This movie has lots of good ingredients that could have made it pretty good if they tried about 20% harder. But it was, ultimately, kind of boring and fell flat for me. It was pretty low rent for Lee Grant in terms of the plot, but her acting lifted it somewhat. The scenery was typical mid-20th century beautiful California wealth, but the plot was truly ridiculous with an absolutely loathesome father and lots of noise made about the main character's fat, even though she really was not fat. One curiosity to me is this was said to be made for TV, but the scene where the dad notices his car hood is warm and exclaims "sh*t!" had me wondering if it originally made it onto TV that way.
Review of The Spell
