Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sabrina is a teenager whose parents send her to live with her two unconventional aunts, Hilda and Zelda. On her sixteenth birthday she learns that she is a witch and that magic runs in the family. She begins using her newfound powers at her new school, where they bring her attention as an athlete and a student and draw her toward the most popular boy in her class, at the expense of a shyer boy who genuinely cares for her and the one real friend she has made. Her careless spells set off a disaster at a school dance, and her aunts grow increasingly unsure whether she can become a proper witch, while one of her teachers comes to suspect that something about his new pupil does not add up.

This 1996 American television film, running 91 minutes, was directed by Tibor Takács, the second of the fourteen films he has directed in chronological order, following The Gate and preceding Sabotage. The screenplay is credited to Kathryn Wallack, Nicholas Factor and Barney Cohen, and Richard Davis and Alana H. Lambros produced it for Showtime Networks. Melissa Joan Hart plays Sabrina Sawyer, with Sherry Miller and Charlene Fernetz as her aunts, Michelle Beaudoin as her friend Marnie, and Ryan Reynolds and Tobias Mehler among the cast. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.7/10 from 352 votes.