One of the more successful efforts from the Ron Miller era at Disney - this has slack TV handling (it fees like a TV movie) but benefits from a strong story and has some excellent actors, such as Donald Pleasance, Eddie Albert and Ray Milland. The kids are pretty good - Kim Richards is one - and it helps that they're genuinely young because the stakes are so high.
It's wonderful wish fulfilment for kids - you might be little but you can read minds and move things telepathically. The filmmakers cleverly stack the deck against them - it shows creepy rich billionaires can pluck you out of orphanages by forging documents, and that townsfolk can call you witches and whip up a mob to shoot you dead.
The effects are dodgy, but it has charm and pace.
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