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| | PopMatters My Favorite Thing | Escape to and Return from Witch Mountain |
 | | The Witch Mountain storyline -- involving a pair of supernatural, extraterrestrial siblings trying to reunite with their other-worldly community -- entwines many powerful narratives, deftly synthesizing, for example, a potent wish-fulfillment fantasy with an almost beatific dream of ascending into the sky, of learning one is not of this Earth and, strangely, embracing this knowledge. |
 | | But here Witch Mountain turns out to be a sanctuary for the orphaned Tia and Tony, whose extraterrestrial brethren have established a kind of survivalist outpost there. |
 | | But it was the Witch Mountain cycle that turned her into a near legend among child performers, mentioned perhaps not quite so often as Jodie Foster or Hayley Mills, but often in the same breath, and sometimes with even more respect. |
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