Sabrina The Teenage Witch is a TV movie
adaptation from the
Archie Comics. It served as a pilot for
Sabrina The Teenage Witch tv series, and premiered on Showtime on April 7, 1996. The film is rated
PG by the
MPAA for thematic elements. The tagline for this film is
Do Homework, Buy Prom Dress, Learn How to Fly. The only two actors who appeared in both the pilot and eventual television series were Melissa Joan Hart and Michelle Beaudoin, though Beaudoin plays a different character in the television series.
Plot
The movie centers around Sabrina Sawyer who is sent to live with her eccentric aunts in Riverdale. On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina discovers that she is a witch. Sabrina then develops a crush on Seth, the cutest boy in school who happens to be dating Katie La More, the Queen Bee of the school. Sabrina has to find a way to use her newly discovered magical power to get Seth to notice her, but at the same time not cast a love spell, which could backfire on her.