Rough Magic

FILM REVIEW 

Title: Rough Magic 

Year: 1995 

Director: Clare Peploe 

Writer: James Hadley Chase, Robert Mundi, William Brookfield, Clare Peploe 

Running time: 100 minutes   

Country: USA 

Plot summary: 

Set in the 1950s, Rough Magic tells the story of what happens when a pretty apprentice magician goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé, a wealthy politician, and to find a Mayan shaman who will teach her ancient principles of magic. She is being trailed by a detective hired by her fiancé. He's a former photojournalist traumatized by what he saw in Hiroshima. The photojournalist joins her in the search for the Mayan shaman, and falls in love with her; the feeling is not reciprocated. When she finds the shaman, she drinks a potion which empowers her to do magic. The potion has life-changing effects on her and her relationship with her companion. They have strange experiences which are brought about by magic. 

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