The Original Cast of The Witches Paved the Way For the New Anne Hathaway Remake

The Grand High Witch is one of the most powerful beings in the world, and absolutely abhors children. She summons the witches for a conference in the hopes that together they can wipe out all children in the area. The Grand High Witch hides behind the facade of an attractive, glamorous, and snobbish foreign aristocrat.

Mr. Stringer is the bristly manager of the hotel that the boy and his grandmother go to stay at (which also happens to be hosting the witches conference). Pretentious and high-strung, he doesn't believe the grandmother when she claims there are witches at his hotel.

Secretly a former witch hunter, the grandmother is the Grand High Witch's nemesis and it's her mission to destroy her. She believes in her grandson, and wholly trusts him. When the boy gets turned into a mouse, she does what she can to help turn him back.

The boy accidentally stumbles across the witches' conference while staying at the same hotel. Eventually, he gets turned into a mouse and it's up to him and his grandmother to stop the witches.

Part of the witches plan involves turning the children into mice so that they can be easily exterminated.