The Magic Finger (2018 film)

The Magic Finger is a 2018 computer-animated comedy film directed by Peter Sohn and it was Based on the Books by Roald Dahl, it was Produced by WaldenMedia, Roald Dahl Story Company (formely just Roald Dahl) and Amblin Entertainment and Distributed by Universal Pictures, It stars Leah Lewis (Elemental), Ryan Reynolds (Detective Pikachu), Steve Carell (The Despicable Me Series, Over the Hedge and Minions 1 and 2), it was edited by Stephen Schaeffer, This was the 20th Roald Dahl Film Adaptation right After Wonka (2023)

Cast

 * Leah Lewis as Hannah White aka The Girl with the Magic Finger
 * Ryan Reynolds as Mr. Gregg
 * Laura Megan Stahl as Ms. Gregg
 * Steve Carell as Mr. Cooper
 * Anya Taylor-Joy as Mrs. Cooper
 * Keanu Reeves as William
 * Colin Hanks as Phillip
 * Dee Bradley Baker as the Ducks

Plot
8-year-old girl Hannah White who is growing up on a remote rural farm in the English countryside, next door to the Gregg family who has a passion for hunting animals and birds. The title "Magic Finger" is an ability she has that activates inadvertently whenever she gets angry: the finger itself shoots out a beam of electrical energy that apparently seeks out whoever has angered the girl, with unpredictable consequences. For example, when the girl's teacher shames her for misspelling the word "cat", the magic finger gives her whiskers and a bushy tail, and the girl cryptically states that she was never quite the same again.

One day, the girl sees Mr. Gregg and his two sons, Philip and William, returning home from a hunt with a deer that they have just killed, and they make fun of her when she shouts at them. In a rage, the girl puts the Magic Finger itself on the entire family; when they wake up the following morning they have shrunk to bird-size and developed "ducks' wings" in place of their arms and hands. While trying out their new wings, the Greggs fly out of their beloved house, which is promptly occupied by four human-sized ducks with human arms and human hands, and they are all soon forced to build a nest in an old tree for the night.

The following morning, the Greggs all find that, in a major reversal of their habits, three out of four of the ducks are holding the Greggs' hunting guns in their hands. Desperately, Mr and Mrs Gregg both persuade the ducks not to shoot them, but the mother duck (the only duck who never holds a gun) taunts them about their own fondness for shooting, especially since the previous day, they somehow shot all 6 of the duck's precious children. Mr Gregg tells the duck mother to give up shooting and he destroys all 3 guns with a big hammer, swearing never to hurt another duck, deer "or anything else again". The four ducks then head back toward the lake where they live, before letting the Greggs leave their tree. Then, the Greggs all find themselves returned to normal by magic.

The 8-year-old girl comes by the Greggs' farm to see that the Gregg family (now changing their surname to Egg) have fully changed their ways and are now feeding and caring for the birds. As Philip and William tell the girl their entire story, the sound of gunfire in the distance attracts the girl's attention, and she feels the Magic Finger charging up again, after all, the Gregg family stops shooting ducks. Mr. Gregg smashes all three guns into tiny pieces with a huge hammer, and then they all run away and the Guns Exploded, Mrs. Gregg places beautiful flowers upon the graves of the sixteen ducks

Trivia

 * Roald Dahl's Signature can be seen in the Explosion white Mr. Gregg Smashed the 3 Guns

Marketing
A New Book Cover for the Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger was officially Made by Peter Sohn