Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards

Tia and her brother Tony have supernatural powers, can communicate and move things with the power of their mind alone. They arrive on Earth for a visit in Los Angeles. When Tony uses his powers to pre...( read more  read more... )vent an accident, he gets into the hands of Dr. Gannon, a ruthless scientist who's constantly striving for power over the world. He puts him a device into the brain that allows him to control Tony's will. Tia gets help from a kids gang to free Tony and save the Earth.

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G, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: John Hough

Release Date: March 10, 1978

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DVD Release Date: March 10, 2009

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  • April 2, 2009
    I loved this one as well great movie can not wait to see the new one they have made.
  • March 12, 2009
    Loved this one also, not as much as the first one but it still does it for me. Like I said before one of those classics that take me back to my childhood. Still enjoy it very much and I absolutely can't wait for the new version. It has got to be good...
  • February 5, 2009
    Bette Davis and Christopher Lee are respectable in their performances as the villains, Davis representing the evil of wealth and Lee the evil of science. Classic Disney villains who don't believe in childlike values of magic and innocence and just being plain nice. Disney was t...( read more)rying to be more tough and urban in this picture by having youth street gangs battling for their turf. One gang of four younger boys who haven't established themselves as the top dogs in their neighborhood because they're still scared of their mothers yelling at them, they still sometimes go to school, and they're just pretty dorky, befriend the alien girl Tia. All the scenes with the children, which is most of the movie, are full of awful dialog and stiff performances. The plot of the movie involves Tia searching for her brother Tony who has been captured by Davis and Lee and is having his mind controlled for their evil purposes. The only other major adult character besides Davis and Lee's henchman is an Oriental man who the kids derogatorily call Yo-Yo. The character's real name is Mr. Yokomoto, but no, I guess that's too hard to pronounce, or it's another bad example of Disney trying to make the kids sound tough like they're from the street and don't care what adults think. Anyways Mr. Yokomoto drives a van from the Education Department around town looking to pick up delinquent kids and the actor delivers a couple really corny after-school-special kind of monologues about kids staying in school. I'm all for kids staying in school, but this is not the way to deliver the message or fix the problem.
  • January 1, 2008
    A classic man!
  • July 8, 2007
    Psychic space kids Tony and Tia are separated in an urban setting. Bette Davis and Christopher Lee are using Tony's powers to steal gold. Tia must enlist the help of a street gang to rescue her brother. It's a lot of ultra-cool Disney fun. The scene where Tony robs the western mu...( read more)seum and animates the mannequins was freaky. The scene where Tia enpowers Jack Soo's bus was memorable. Not as fresh as the original movie, but it's rare that we see psychic children using their powers for good.
  • September 26, 2009
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  • September 15, 2009
    We laughed so hard! It's hard to watch these old movies knowing how far it's all come! Loved it and we figured it was the perfect start to a Witch Mountain weekend, where we followed it with Race to Witch Mountain... unfortunately, my BlockBuster only carries these two.
  • August 13, 2009
    I didnt like this one as I did the first but its still good...!~!
  • June 25, 2009
    Classic Disney live action. Plus Bette Davis still creeps me out.
  • June 3, 2009
    It's a little crazy compared to the original. It does get points for being the same cast.

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  • bilow
    June 14, 2008
    I was reading the reviews and Kim Richards is not Ben Jones's aka Cooter from the orginal Dukes of Hazards. BUt her sister is Paris Hilton's mother. Im not promoting another website but I got my info from www.imdb.com
    As for this movie as a child I loved and as a woman in her mid 30s I still love it

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