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Release Date: 1997

Cast: Kathleen Turner, Amanda Plummer, Francis Capra, Teri Garr, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Martin Short, Deborah Odell, Lanny Flaherty, Ruby Dee

Categories: Movies, Family-Oriented Comedy, Children'S Fantasy, Fantasy, Family, Fantasy Comedy, Comedy, Children'S/Family

A Simple Wish is a 1997 fantasy-comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Martin Short, Mara Wilson, and Kathleen Turner. The film about a bumbling male fairy godmother named Murray (Short), who tries to help eight-year-old Annabel (Wilson) fulfill her wish that her father, a carriage driver, wins the leading role in a Broadway musical. The film begins with many fairy godmothers taking an exam. There is only one male one doing it, after a few hours of unsuccessfully trying to copy the others in order to pass his own quicker. He eventually finishes. The film then takes place... MORE

A Simple Wish is a 1997 fantasy-comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Martin Short, Mara Wilson, and Kathleen Turner. The film about a bumbling male fairy godmother named Murray (Short), who tries to help eight-year-old Annabel (Wilson) fulfill her wish that her father, a carriage driver, wins the leading role in a Broadway musical. The film begins with many fairy godmothers taking an exam. There is only one male one doing it, after a few hours of unsuccessfully trying to copy the others in order to pass his own quicker. He eventually finishes. The film then takes place three months after the exam concerning the life of an otherwise insignificant park carriage driver named Oliver Greening (Robert Pastorelli). After an accident with his horse, Duchess, he picks up his daughter, Annabel (Mara Wilson), and son, Charlie (Francis Capra), from school, whereupon he must then go to his audition for A Tale of Two Cities. However, the man who watches him respects his work and even though he would like to consider him, he cannot due to his promise to the show's backers of a big name actor in the role. After Annabel attempts to get Charlie to believe that the tooth fairy LESS