Review – Magic

I remember when I was a kid (12 at the time) I was really spooked by the ad for this movie. If only the picture itself had been as eerie. Anthony Hopkins stars as a professional ventriloquist, and do I even have to tell you that he has a psycho dissociative disorder thing going with his dummy? Fleeing the pressures of show business, he returns to his old home town hoping to rekindle a romance with his old high school crush (Ann-Margret). She’s stuck in a loveless marriage. His agent wants him to get professional help. And so the soap opera goes. Some of Hopkins’s exchanges with the dummy are bush leagues creepy, but for the most part this is just dull. Mildly amusing