| Escape to Witch Mountain | |
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| Directed by | Peter Rader |
| Produced by | Joan Van Horn Scott Immergut Les Mayfield George Zaloom |
| Written by | Alexander Key (novel) Robert M. Young (screenplay) Peter Rader (teleplay) |
| Starring | Robert Vaughn Elisabeth Moss Erik von Detten Vincent Schiavelli Brad Dourif |
| Music by | Richard Marvin |
| Cinematography | Russ T. Alsobrook |
| Editing by | Duane Hartzell |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Television |
| Release date(s) | April 29, 1995 |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Escape to Witch Mountain is a 1995 American television film directed by Peter Rader and a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain.
The twins, named Danny and Anna, are found by Zoe Moon (Perrey Reeves) a young waitress, who notices when the children's hands touch, they create a wave of purple energy. However, before she can do anything, the infant children are separated.
Danny (Erik von Detten) spends the next few years of his life between foster families, with none of which he feels at home. Frustrated by the inability to place him, his social worker decides to leave him at an orphanage with other children, where he can a least make some friends. Here he is reunited with Anna (Elisabeth Moss) but they are initially not aware of their relationship, despite the odd mannerisms they share such as arranging the food on their trays exactly the same way. Once they realize they are siblings and possess supernatural powers, they catch the attention of Edward Bolt (Robert Vaughn), a local magnate seeking to develop the nearby Witch Mountain. He decides he wants to take care of them as their foster father; Danny is happy with the development, since he now has his sister and will have a nice home, but Anna is more apprehensive about being adopted by Bolt.
During one of their outings, Anna uses her powers. As a result, the owner of the shop takes them aside, revealing that he possesses the same powers they do. He goes on to say that there are many more like them, all extraterrestrials from a planet where everyone has a twin. They came to Earth to explore, but all of them separated out of quarrels they experienced on Earth. The shopkeeper has been working to reunite them all and take them home. Danny dismisses him as joke, but Anna believes there is some truth to what he is saying. Meanwhile, Zoe sees the purple light from the front of the shop and recognizes it; she confronts the shop owner in hopes of finding the twins she saw, but he dismisses her declarations, though he leaves her some clues as to what will happen to Anna and Danny, if she wants to help them.
Bolt reveals that he intends to use Anna and Danny to blast open Witch Mountain without explosives. When Anna discovers the truth, Bolt decides to separate them and use Anna as a hostage so Danny will do as he asks. At Witch Mountain, the two escape with help from Zoe, Bruno the Hermit (Brad Dourif), Bolt's chauffeur Luthor (Brad Dourif), and Anna's friend Xander from the orphanage. It is here where the shopkeeper and many other reunited twins are waiting for them, the last two sets of twins, Bruno and Luthor are revealed to be twins as well, to join them. Using the shopkeeper's powers, they all return home in pairs, with Anna and Danny going last to close the gate between their home world and Earth. Bolt arrives too late to capture them and the shopkeeper casually comments that he will be waiting for the next group of tourists. Anna and Danny go up into the purple smoke to Witch Mountain.
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