

Magic
A terrifying love story.
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
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6.8/10
336 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7M
- Box office
- $23.8M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- magic
- telepathy
- 1970s
- alter ego
- ventriloquist
- evil doll
- dead body
- madness
- split personality
- high school sweetheart
- ventriloquist's dummy
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR8 Nov 1978
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical158 Mar 1979
FranceFR
- Theatrical14 Feb 1979
- PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray12 Feb 2021
- Digital / OTTVOD26 Mar 2021
JapanJP
- Theatrical3 Mar 1979
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical168 Mar 1979
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Magic was released on 8 November 1978.
Audience reviews
3- C
Cat Ellington
2/15/2017
'We're gonna be star-arrrs.' — "Fats" It had been two weeks after seeing Phantasm that my family's weekly "Movie Date Night" continued on with the next film treat on our list: Magic, the Richard Attenborough directed psychological horror, in which the now legendary Anthony Hopkins stars as Charles "Corky" Withers, an aspiring magician and Ventriloquist, whom, "in partnership" with a profanity-spewing ventriloquis…
- W7/10
Wuchak
5/13/2024
**_Anthony Hopkins as a schizophrenic magician and Ann-Margret the woman he loves_** A shy man finds success as a ventriloquist with his dummy “Fats,” but vacations in his hometown in the Catskills where he seeks to reunite with a high school friend. As his agent tries to find him, the woman's hubby might show up. Burgess Meredith and Ed Lauter play the latter two. “Magic” (1978) is a slow burn Hitchcock-ian ps…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/29/2025
After a distinctly rocky solo start, “Corky” (Anthony Hopkins) has become quite a celebrated ventriloquist but that fame with “Fats” has come at a price. Indeed, it’s not always clear who has their hand up whom? In order to take a breather from all this lucrative adulation, and despite the insistence of his more venal agent “Greene” (Burgess Meredith), he seeks somewhere more remote to recharge his batteries. That so…
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