^ Nope, I never watched it. Maybe I should check it out.
It's really good. It's about four teenage friends in a Catholic High School who discover the power of witchcraft and use it to get back at their bullies and abusive parents as well as solve problems in their own lives. But things start to get out of control when some of the girls in the coven take their newfound power too far and they start abusing it.
Sarah is the new girl in town who once attempted suicide because she suffers from hallucinations and has low self-esteem.
Nancy is a goth girl who lives in abject poverty with her alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather.
Rochel is an African American girl, the only black girl in the whole school who suffers racist taunts from some of her classmatea.
And Bonnie is a girl who suffered burn scars on her body due to a childhood accident anfld hides them under long sleeves, her mother spends a lot of money taking her to gene therapy treatments to try and help her.
I don't know if you ever watched Sailor Moon? But the Japanese anime/manga's creator Naoko Takeuchi was very much a feminist and wanted to create a story about magic girl superheroes back in the early 1990's before that subgenre was actually a thing in Japan.
Unfortunately DiC censored the HELL out of it when it was brought to the US but the show still enjoys great popularity around the world even to this day
Anyways here's the theme song to one of the intros.
Did you know that the guy who wrote The Wizard of Oz children's book had a mother-in-law who was one of the most famous feminists fighting for women's rights in the early 1900's? Her name was Matilda Josyln Gage.
She actually inspired him to write a story about a normal Kansas girl who travels to a magical world ruled by powerful witches, some good and some bad, and the girl herself finds her own inner-strength to overcome many obstacles.
I think of that every time I hear some of the music from the movie based in the book.