The three witches sat in silence, aware that they were bewitched by someone more powerful...
The hopelessly hypocritical small town of Eastwick in the American state of Rhode Island offers a trio of Macbeth-like witches the perfect setting. The superstitious Alexandra, Jane and Sukie, with an unpleasant forty knocking at their door, follow the voice of the sexual revolution of the sweet sixties and so far they have managed in this hole with their own boldness. But now Darryl's drugged them. The eccentric from New York intends to break the laws of physics and prudishness in his local dingy palace - and maybe even hell with the trio of scientists from the neighbourhood, with whom he is having an orgy of sorts. Modern sabbaticals held in the heart of New England, where freethinkers were once burned at the stake, will transform the Eastwick of 1968-1969 beyond recognition. But Updike's satire, with the help of magic, will primarily show that the power of femininity has always offered people miraculous medicine... and far more playful than the methods of today's extreme warriors.
Unlike George Miller's 1987 film with Susan Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer, which was limited to the unmasking and exorcism of the devil (Jack Nicholson), his fictional draft infuses the elixir of freedom into the veins of the witches. And she is interested in what she will do with the rights and obligations she has acquired.
