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A Cinderella Story

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A Cinderella Story (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 96

Fresh: 10

Rotten:86

Average Rating: 3.6/10

Consensus: An uninspired, generic updating of the classic fairy tale.

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release: Jul 16, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $51,392,209

Synopsis: Hilary Duff plays Sam, a good-hearted Cinderella stuck in the fairy-tale-gone-wrong atmosphere of modern-day Los Angeles. Enslaved by an evil, BOTOX-junky step-mom (a hilarious Jennifer Coolidge) Sam is forced to scrub floors at her... Hilary Duff plays Sam, a good-hearted Cinderella stuck in the fairy-tale-gone-wrong atmosphere of modern-day Los Angeles. Enslaved by an evil, BOTOX-junky step-mom (a hilarious Jennifer Coolidge) Sam is forced to scrub floors at her late father's diner, thus earning the eternal disdain of the snooty popular kids in school. Luckily she has a friend in artsy nerd Carter (Dan Byrd), and a text-message romance with some poetic schoolmate she's never met. She also has a fairy godmother in the sweet diner manager (Regina King), who helps Sam get decked out and disguised for the Halloween dance. At the dance, she discovers her prince is one of the popular kids, Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray). Happily ever after seems like a long shot, though, because Austin is burdened by pressures at school and at home, and Sam can't shake her "diner girl" inferiority complex. This fairy tale comes with plenty of wit, style, and heart. It moves along too fast to be sappy, and broadly razzes the shallowness of popular kids, their stupid parents, and whiny siblings in a way that should balm the unhealed wounds of anyone who's ever been to high school. Byrd makes a winning and somewhat cool nerd, Murray shows princely posture as the tortured poet-quarterback, and Duff firmly establishes herself as a first-rate young actress with luminous major-league screen presence. [More]

Starring: Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Jennifer Coolidge

Starring: Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Jennifer Coolidge, Regina King

Director: Mark Rosman

Director: Mark Rosman
Screenwriter: Leigh Dunlap
Producer: Clifford Werber, Ilyssa Goodman, Hunt Lowry, Dylan Sellers
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Apr 18, 2006

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08/07/08
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I took a friend's 10-year-old daughter to see the film, and she found it 'too childish.' And who am I to argue with a member of this film's target audience?

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12/19/04
Hanh Nguyen
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'A Cinderella Story' makes so many good chocies, you wish you could like it more than you do.

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11/04/04
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury
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Rather than anything original or humorous or, heaven forbid, romantic developing from this fable, we get only tired clichés and worn-out stereotypes.

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10/18/04
John J. Puccio
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People who wear glass slippers shouldn't go around kicking the crap out of fairytales.

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10/11/04
John Larsen
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A benign, whimsical semblance of its namesake fairy tale.

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09/16/04
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
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This is simple, lazy storytelling rendered merely functional by appealing leads and the eternal lure of romantic fantasy.

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08/19/04
Anna Smith
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08/19/04
Matthew Turner
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Every high school cliché in the book is dredged up for this piece of fluff

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08/19/04
Wendy Ide
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08/16/04
Brian Orndorf
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It's all way too bland.

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08/08/04
David Noh
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I look at “Cinderella Story” as I would look at early Elvis films - this is a teen movie made for the sheer enjoyment of her fans.

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08/07/04
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
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The result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky-clean, helium-voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.

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08/03/04
Neil Smith
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07/28/04
Robert Denerstein
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This year's one-zillionth mean-girl movie, and that's not the only thing here that's played out.

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07/23/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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The only thing missing is the pumpkin that turns into a coach. That’s OK, because Duff turns into a turkey way before midnight.

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07/23/04
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