Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that Double Double Toil and Trouble is a 1993 TV movie that exhibits the Olsen twins at age 7, in their fullest phase of cuteness. Much of the script's humor revolves around their precocious handling of grown-up frailties. The movie is more silly than scary, but there are some minor frights: A gravedigger who is afraid of Agatha digs a grave at her command; and witches gather to make evil plans (more sensitive children may want to fast-forward through this creepy witches' meeting, and they can do so without missing much essential plot information). Their cauldron flares up with much drama. Agatha turns a good guy into a crow. In Agatha's scary house, the girls free Sophia from the mirror, but Agatha tries to push her back and, in the scuffle, is pushed into the mirror and trapped there herself.

Violence

A gravedigger who is afraid of Agatha digs a grave at her command. Witches gather to make evil plans. Their cauldron flares up with much drama. Agatha turns a good guy into a crow. In Agatha's scary house, the girls free Sophia from the mirror, but Agatha tries to push her back and, in the scuffle, is pushed into the mirror and trapped there herself.

Language

Not applicable

Social Behavior

Evil is sharply punished and good rewarded. The girls start out feeling limited by the downside of being twins, then come to appreciate the particular closeness that only twins can share.

Consumerism

Part of the Olsen twins empire.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Aunt Agatha drinks an unidentified fluid from a wine glass.

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