Magic (1978)

R11/08/1978Drama, Horror1h 47m
  • User
    Score

A terrifying love story.

Overview

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Anthony Hopkins

    Corky Withers/Fats (voice)

  2. Cast 1

    Ann-Margret

    Peggy Ann Snow

  3. Cast 1

    Burgess Meredith

    Ben Greene

  4. Cast 1

    Ed Lauter

    Duke

  5. Cast 1

    E.J. André

    Merlin

  6. Cast 1

    Jerry Houser

    Cab Driver

  7. Cast 1

    David Ogden Stiers

    George Todson

  8. Cast 1

    Lillian Randolph

    Sadie

  9. Joe Lowry

    Club M.C.

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 somewhere just happens to be where his boyhood crush “Peggy” (Ann-Margret) lives with her husband “Duke” (Ed Lauter). Things are tense at the best of times, but made even more so whe...