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Amphibians in Movies   Practical Magic (1998)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is another Hollywood romcom about beautiful witches with an interesting use of frogs. It stars Sandra Bullock as Sally Owens, and Nicole Kidman as her sister Gillian. They were raised by their spinster Aunts who taught them witchcraft. The girls were cursed at birth so any man who they fall in love with will die. Sally marries and has kids, with a tragic outcome for her husband, but Gillian decides to leave town and have some fun without getting involved. Eventually she falls for a Transylvanian named Jimmy who wears a very distinctive ring. After he beats Gillian she sends for her sister and they return home where they kill him. (No worries, he deserved it.) They bury him in the yard, but strange things happen at his gravesite. After a detective named Gary shows up searching for Jimmy as well as for Sally (in another romantic thread) he and the sisters are walking in the yard when they see a bullfrog on a log that spits out Jimmy's ring. Gary tells them he's been looking for the ring, and takes it as evidence. He tells the sisters they better get a good lawyer because it looks like they murdered him. Jimmy's spirit comes out of his grave and enters Gillian, so the other witches tie her onto a wheelchair, saying that Jimmy is squatting inside her like a toad, and that they must force his spirit back into the grave. They arrange a witch ceremony to do that. As Sally's daughters, more witches in training, push Gillian in the wheelchair across the living room floor, we see a bunch of frogs fall out of her underneath the chair. The girls later put all the frogs in a bag and, disgusted, dump them over a fence.