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Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009)

★ 7.3 · 1,783 ratings on TMDB

Family vacations can be tricky.

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie poster★ 7.3

A young wizard accidentally conjures a spell that puts her family in jeopardy.

DirectorLev L. Spiro
CastDavid DeLuise, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, Jazmin Caratini, Jennifer Alden, Jennifer Stone
GenresAction, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, magic, identity.

zero-distanceUSfamilymagicidentity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E0causalityreality can be rewritten by a single wish, erasing people from existence (physics · universal)
Also inFilms about familyFilms about identityFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also bends a rule of reality

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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