


(Although most of the basic idea has been borrowed from the set-up of Sister, Sister, which also had the Mowry sisters living on different socio-economic strata and meeting up by accident at the mall). The main plot set-up has been crimped from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper (1881) about two doubles living lives at opposite ends of the socio-economic spectrum. The film version appears to have been mounted to exploit the pairing of Tia and Tamera Mowry, the twin sisters who first appeared together in the sitcom Sister, Sister (1994-9), where they naturally enough played two twin sisters who are separated at birth and meet up again by accident.Ĭonceptually, Twitches feels like a variant on the young modern witch comedy a la Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2003) or Charmed (1998-2006) having been reconceptualised as an Olsen Twins film or the body of modern airhead teen girl dramas that evolved from Clueless (1995). Gilmour and Randi Reisfeld beginning with The Power of Two (2001). The film is based on a popular series of young adult novels by H.B. Twitches was a movie made for the Disney Channel.
