![]() It was Ivan’s dying request that she ingest Tojola’s powerful potion to restore her to her true self. Meanwhile, Myra, holding fast to an incriminating photo of Wyatt shooting Ivan that could ruin his political career, runs off to Mexico to find a witch doctor named Tojola (Euva Anderson). We can’t be sure, though, because when he tries to bury the magician, opening the trunk where he’s stowed it he finds the body’s disappeared doves fly out, leaving a trunk full of feathers. It’s Wyatt who shoots real bullets out of a prop gun during a performance, apparently killing Ivan. Moffett), a slippery senatorial candidate who wants to marry her because he knows he isn’t electable without a wife. Her boss and mentor, Ivan (Kenneth Mars, sporting a white nineteenth-century-style Vandyke), tells her she’s a natural but counsels her that magic comes from the heart. ![]() The delightful, underused Bridget Fonda has perhaps her best screen role as Myra Shumway, a magician who advertises by producing bunnies from the pockets of businessmen in hotel elevators. Adapted by Robert Mundy, William Brookfield and Peploe from a James Hadley Chase novel called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand and set in the fifties, it’s a cross between a screwball comedy and a magic-realist fable. But it’s one of the oddest and loveliest comedies of the mid-nineties. Rough Magic came out early in 1997 after sitting in the can for two years, opened in very few cities and received mostly dismissive reviews. It took Peploe – who is married to Bernardo Bertolucci and sometimes gets screenplay credit on his movies – nearly a decade to be able to make another picture. ![]() One of the most charming unheralded movies of the eighties was Clare Peploe’s High Season, a high comedy set on a sun-soaked Greek island. Bridget Fonda and Russell Crowe in Rough Magic (1995). ![]()
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