Eventually, after Sally's husband is killed in an accident, Gillian calls her for help, caught up in an abusive relationship. Sally comes to the rescue, one thing leads to another and the two sisters end up accidentally killing Gillian's abusive boyfriend Jimmy.

Panicked, the two sisters, who are witches by the way, resurrect the boyfriend into something similar to "Pet Cemetery." They kill him again, and soon the cops come sniffing around...well, one cop, played by Aiden Quinn (Legends of the Fall), whom Bullock falls for him. All the while, the girls are haunted by the angry spirit of Jimmy. Boy, this sucked.

The picture is horribly adapted by Robin Swicord, from the novel by Alice Hoffman. Director Griffin Dunne (Addicted to Love, Famous) is much to blame for this heap, allowing the material to take on a romantic comedy feel, but also take on a supernatural thriller feel.

It was obvious the picture couldn't decide if it wanted to be a comedy or a thriller, so it played with both, but never really committed; very unfocused and lacked direction severely.

A director's job is not only to help actor figure out a place to come from, and select a series of shots to best tell the story of each scene, but to steer the entire picture into a direction most people will accept and understand. Dunne fails at the third responsibility, which is, in my opinion, a BIG one.

Bullock is adorable in the picture, as if Kidman for the most part. She spends much of it crying and beating beaten on, so she isn't at her best. Performance-wise, everyone did their status quo, while Quinn was barely on the set mentally.

The picture fails at being a comedy, cause it's not funny, and it fails at being a thriller, cause it's never scary. So what is it? Crap, that's what. Griffin Dunne doesn't direct very often and this is one picture to prove why.

Overall, I think you could sleep well at night, knowing you've skipped seeing "Practical Magic."