The Alphabet Project: E is for...

Escape To Witch Mountain (1975)

Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony "escape to witch mountain," while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife. Hilarity ensues.

Trivia: Tia in the flashbacks was played by Kim Richards' younger sister, Kyle Richards. At one point during the fight scene between Tony and Truck, the actor who plays Truck punched the bat so hard, it hit Ike Eisenmann. In some scenes you can see a greenish bruise under his left eye. Bruno the Bear was only alert for about ten minutes a day, with which the production crew had to carefully schedule with the children's two-hour work schedule.

If you want to see a good solid fun little movie with the whole family where else would you go but Disney. I actually had a crush on Kim Richards from Return From Witch Mountain (1978), the sequel to this movie, but I don't remember watching this movie. As an adult to still holds up pretty well as a good movie, except it is a little convenient that Tia would have a flashback memory for a few seconds and all of a sudden Tony is able to tell a full chunk of their back story. For example, Tia remembers that they had an uncle and the tony tells this whole long explanation that they spoke a different language and the there were a lot of them and that...well, that gets into plot points and stuff. And then they had great supporting help, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasance, and Eddie Albert. I can't think of a good family film from recent years that had that powerful a supporting cast (can anyone else?).

Well, up next is the "F" movie. Here are the guesses for "E":

Eight Legged Freaks - A variety of horrible poisonous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.

Elektra - Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

The English Patient - At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. (The English Patient ISN'T EVEN ENGLISH!!)

Envy - A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.

Erin Brockovich - An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Evolution - (Picked by both Kim and Impman) A firefighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky-but-sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving ever since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor.

The Exorcist: The Beginning - Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

Edward Scissorhands - An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.

Earth Girls Are Easy - A spaceship with three furry aliens lands in a California girl's swimming pool, so she makes friends with them.

Ed Wood - The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors.

Ernest Goes to Camp - A group of juvenile criminals is sent for vacation to Kamp Kikakee. The clumsy Ernest has to care for them...

Every Which Way But Loose - Philo Beddoe is an easy-going trucker and a great fist-fighter. With two friends...

Elvira Mistress of the Dark - Elvira, who is the host of a cheap horror movie program finds that she is the heir to an aunt's mansion in New England...

Evil Dead 1, 2, 3 - 1) Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. 2) The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. 3) (Army of Darkness) A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home. (Bruce Campbell at his campiest best)

End of Days - At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.

Easy Rider - Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

Enter the Dragon - A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Ever After - The "real" story of Cinderella. A refreshing new take on the classic fairy tale.

Emma - In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask - A Woody Allen Movie - Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben...