A Cinderella Story Movie
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Once upon a time... can happen any time.
Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Martin is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
| Jennifer Coolidge | Fiona |
| Regina King | Rhonda |
| Hilary Duff | Sam |
| Chad Michael Murray | Austin |
| Julie Gonzalo | Shelby |
| Dan Byrd | Carter |
| Lin Shaye | Mrs. Wells |
| Madeline Zima | Brianna |
| Andrea Avery | Gabriella |
| Mary Pat Gleason | Eleanor |
| Paul Rodriguez | Bobby |
| Whip Hubley | Sam's Dad |
| Kevin Kilner | Austin's Dad |
| Erica Hubbard | Madison |
| Simon Helberg | Terry |
| Mark Rosman |
5.30 out of 10 (6867 votes)
Visitor Reviews
It was OKAY
posted on 14 Aug 2009It was alright, I guess. I don't like that sort of lovey-dovey romance types of movies, I prefer action and horror films, like Star Wars (my favorite) and Alien V.S. Predator. Anyway, I liked the humour though, it was pretty funny. I'd say if you're a romance fan, don't watch it! LOL! Just kidding, there's not too much love in this film, but, like high school love. I'd say don't follow the Fabulous review, because Sam is a tomboy(like me) for all of the film, but Shelby Commings is a cheerleader with a really sharp attitude, who used to date Austin Ames and is always trying to take him away from Sam. I think shes a real jerk. But, I'd say, the movie was OKAY.
utterly lame teen comedy
posted on 12 Aug 2009"A Cinderella Story" is yet another instance of Hollywood taking a classic fairy tale from the Middle Ages and doing it up in modern dress. This one is set in the "Valley Girl" world of snooty bitches and pimply-faced teens, where love blooms in internet chat rooms, and romantic encounters are reduced to an endless exchange of poorly spelled and ungrammatical text messages.The story begins in the 1994 San Fernando Valley when Sam's deliriously happy childhood is shattered by the sudden death of her father in the Northridge earthquake of all things (I wish I were kidding about this, but I'm not), leaving her to suffer under the iron fists of a wicked stepmother and two equally repulsive stepsisters. (One wonders what Sam's lights-out time must have been, since the quake in the film occurs while her father is reading her a bedtime story - a bit odd considering that the actual shaker took place at 4:35 in the morning). The film quickly moves to the present day, where we encounter a teenaged Sam living a life of sheer, unadulterated drudgery, while still yearning for that fairy tale prince to ride into the scene and take her away from it all.To more comfortably accommodate the contemporary setting, all the magical elements of the story have been effectively eliminated and only the romantic clichés remain. Thus, the fairy godmother has been converted into a sassy waitress who watches over Sam and provides her with the gown she needs at that crucial Cinderella moment; the ball has become a high school Halloween dance; the glass slipper has morphed into a left-behind cell phone (though little is actually ever done with that); and Prince Charming is no longer the heir to an entire kingdom but rather a hunky quarterback with dreams of going to Princeton (ha ha) against his father's expressed wishes.Hilary Duff doesn't exactly embarrass herself in the role of Cinderella, but she is forced to struggle with a screenplay overflowing with annoying, over-the-top stereotypes and teen romance banalities. And the movie boasts a penultimate scene at the big championship football game that will have the girls in the audience sighing with satisfaction - and the boys groaning in pain.With one preposterous scene after another, this lame and insipid, by-the-numbers concoction is an insult to thinking teens everywhere.
Hillary Duff was perfect for this part!
posted on 13 Jul 2009This was a great movie! Hillary Duff is great for this part! All of the other cast are great! This movie was funny and entertaining throughout the movie! I have not seen too many movies with Duff, but I would love to see more! I found the part where the step mother and the step sisters had to work cleaning the diner to be hysterical! I liked laughed through the film! That actress that played Fionna, I forgot her name but I have not seen her that much. She is funny. I loved the line where one of the mean girls in school said, "What can I get that has no carbs, no fat and no calories, (or something like that) and she says, "Water!" She looked very pretty in her costume at the party! Overall, I loved the film!
I'm hot u know
posted on 01 Jul 2009OMG A Cinderella Story Rox Total So does chad Micheal Murray and u cant forget Hlary Duff. Hay boy but only the cute ones I'm 13 well almost my B'day is 26 may 1992 I'm in year 7 email me if u want too cant wait to chat I'm not sure but i think my user name is just like my email its a hotmail.comneed to write more this movie rock like all Hilary movies , chad movies and Linsay movie I'm a cheerleader i don't care were u live what country whatever i just want to talk c ya talk soon do do do Hilary Rock s totally always so does chad there perfect for each other love Rach
A Surprise of A Film!!!
posted on 29 Jun 2009This is and isn't your average teen flick, but tone down for a PG rating. What makes it an average teen flick is the normal slut pack, the crude jocks, and the famous jock falling for the unpopular girl. The reason that it's not is the surprise great characters that pop up, especially Regina King's role, and Jennifer "Stifler's Mom" Coolidge. The plot is just like the fairy tale except for some minor glitz. Hilary Duff is actually great for role that we seen her play in ever movie & T.V. show. Chad Michael Murray is actually one of my favorite up & coming actors. Watching him chew bubble gum is cool I bet. Regina King is the highlight of the film. Putting a whole new twist on fairy-godmother with attitude. And if that's not enough, they have Stifler's Mom, Stifler's Mom. That's says it all!!!!
crazy
posted on 17 Jun 2009I love this movie!!! Hilary Duff is an excellent actress! Well, I think this movie is so romantic. It is really same of the story of Cinderella. The story is so good and the actors too. I saw all the movies of Hilary Duff, and this movie is my favorite. I wish and I know Hilary Duff still will do more beautiful movies, maybe more good of that. And I say: if you don't see this movie, you are lose a lot.And if you don't see this movie... what do you waiting for? Run! Go get this movie in somewhere you know and after, tell me what do you think.Take a time of school for this. I swear if you like comedies and romances you will like that.
The best chick flick I've ever watched, ever
posted on 11 Jun 2009I really was surprised by how enjoyable this movie was. It is based on the Disney story of Cinderella but in modern times in a high school with Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. She is 'diner girl', as the harsh popular girls at school call her, and he is head of the football team. Hilary lives with her evil and selfish stepmom and her two daughters who are always wanting to cause trouble for Hilary. During the film we learn of an internet romance between Princestongirl(hilary) and nomad(chad). They text each other and talk online for hours on end, then Chad asks princestongirl if she will meet him in the middle of the dancefloor at a certain time, she goes without her stepmother knowing and she dresses up like Cinderella and he like prince charming. They dance, the kiss but he doesn't know who she is because she wore a mask over her face and she had to go back to the diner to work before her wicked stepmother notices shes not there. She has to leave him. The film continues as the secret gets out to the cheerleaders the story of princestongirl and nomad and they perform a skit in celebration of the upcoming football championship. They make it blatantly obvious who these two characters are and the whole school laugh in hilary's face. In then end everything works out. Hilary finds the will her dead father left her and the house and everything in it becomes hers and she makes her stepmother and her daughters scrub the floors at the diner that she also now owns. Hilary and Chad go to the same college together and live happily ever after...The End.
I Thought this was such a cute movie! ~!
posted on 09 Jun 2009I really liked this movie. Seeing movies like this gets me in a good mood.
It was a cute love story (never seen one of those before)But i loved the story line and how they stayed true to Cinderella. Given there are many versions of this movie made but this ranks in the top 2 of them that i love.
The acting was superb. I loved Dan Byrd because he had me laughing really hard and he is so cute and such a great actor. He all so portrayed such a good friend and was just a character to love in the movie. The now engaged Chad Michael Murray was of course awesome and just the biggest delight to this movie. His character was the guy i wish i had in my school. But never did. Her first movie branching out from the Lizzie Mcguire Era she proved herself to make the transistion From Lizzie to Hilary Duff Musician and actress not just Lizzie Mcguire. She was able to shed that layer of skin and now go on to do other stuff. I'm looking forward to movies she had coming up and movies in the future. The whole was amazing and expect good things if not already from all of them! ~! Recommended for Friends and Family! ~!
A Cinderella Story is a GREAT movie with a great lesson to be learned
posted on 03 Jun 2009This video was awesome. I just watched it for the first time and I will definitely watch it again. Most movies these days are made purely for entertainment and often have a lot of junk in them (course language, nudity, etc), but A Cinderella Story taught me something valuable: to believe in myself and be who I really am, and not who others want me to be. I have taken this to heart and I hope it reflects in my actions in the many years I have ahead of me. I'm going to start being myself. I hope and pray that I will soon get a girlfriend who will accept me as I am (and maybe be as beautiful as Hilary Duff. Lol). I also hope that I will do the same whenever I meet new people. Thank you to the director, actors and all the others who made this movie such a success and keep up the great work. Thank you for the effect that you have had on my life.Cody
Not Such A Good Movie!
posted on 30 May 2009This movie was clearly not the best. Perhaps if another actress, besides Hilary Duff portrayed Sam(Cinderella) then the movie would be more enjoyable. However, Hilary's acting skills are quite poor and her "tween dream" image ruined the merit of her supposedly being an outcast. Every moment watching her act almost made me choke, I was disgusted with her "talent". However, the story I suppose was OK. Excluding the fact that a real hot high school jock would not be interested in Princeton, and especially not interested in a girl like Sam. Sure, they attempted to prove to the world that high school rankings don't matter, and theirs more to people than meets the eye, but I sure didn't buy it, and I don't think anyone else did.So readers, If you haven't seen this movie, consider yourself lucky. The only part of this film I found enjoyable was JD Pardo, who played Ryan, one of Austin's friends. He is extremely attractive, talented and charming, and although his role was small, he gave me a reason to actually continue watching this movie.
good teen movie
posted on 24 May 2009i personally think the movie is a good teen movie.i saw it and its almost a perfect description on what teens do theses days.months later , when i met my bf i found that that his parents own the diner it was filmed in ( George's 50's diner)its located in Long Beach, Ca on Atlantic and San Antonio drive.yup yup.they made it look really different in the movie though,but its a really neat family run place.the movie has a good teen spunk .its recommended. nice modern twist to the original Cinderella tale.
This is just about A Cinderella Story
posted on 20 May 2009i like a Cinderella story because its a nice and girlie remake of Cinderella with a modern touch to it... i also like it because Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray also make a spectacular couple in it and i wouldn't have it any other way... I also was blown away by the costumes used in the Halloween dance ... especially Hilary Duff's dress it was basically a ball gown or a dream girls dress ... but what was the best was the appearance Hilary Duff doing to the role of Samantha Montgomery,a depressed young teenager, living in a misery with her stepmother... and Chad Michael Murray as Austin Ames a closet poet , living his father dream .... being popular ,playing football and getting into USC football . can these two very different people come together and make a good couple.....?
loved it.
posted on 18 May 2009I really am a sucker for cute Disney movies; especially ones like this...This is definitely one of those movies that you can watch over and over again and never get sick of it...even though I know what to expect. This kind of reminds me of my school football team because we won both of our "big" this year and we even won the state championships...anyway back to the movie... some parts brought tears to my eyes and others i coudn't stop laughing. This movie also taught me that if you just believe in yourself anything in life can happen. Hilary Duff is one of my favorite actresses. All in all if you haven't seen this movie you should watch it because it turned out to be one of my favorite movies of all Disney ones.
Great story and great acting
posted on 10 May 2009A really good movie she really lived the story of Cinderella. A love at the first site which was gorgeous. Sam was living an endless dream story starting from the period she was little until she groves up. She took her father advices and made her own luck, found her prince and went to the University were princesses go, at Princeton. We hope that she had build further her own castle too, her own kingdom. The movie was really good made, kept a part of the original Cinderella story but added new things that made the movie much interested. I really like the way Hilary acts, she plays in movies that defines her. She really feats in the teenagers movies. I like her stile, her way of being and just hope to met her sometimes.
the advantage is on the side of the perfect observer, disarmed.
posted on 10 May 2009I was fortunate enough to receive the suggestion of watching this movie. I would never had picked it out on the movie store, specially considering the movie store i have access to. One look at the cover of the DVD and i was certain it was a joke or something - this little blond girl on this guys back... However, as the suggestion had come from a dear friend, i took a deep breath and said to my self 'i will watch this with all my respect'. It was a good decision. I could go ahead and describe piece by piece of the movie, its cinematography, acting, editing, sound and such, for that is my job. I will spare you from this though. I rather hope that right here i can do what my friend did to me and suggest that if you really like cinema and stories and things like this, that you watch it. And that you chose a mind set that sets your self free from habit and prejudice and that you strive to be the perfect observer. There, open to it. What this movie gave me is right inside my heart, and i am so very grateful.
grasping at straws...
posted on 02 May 2009Did we really need one more "cinderella type" story this decade? Between "Chasing Liberty", " The PRince and Me", and "The Princess Diaries" I believe that we may have that genre sufficiently covered. Like the rash of teenybopper horror movies from the late 1990's , this movie continues to beat the dead horse of an increasingly younger and more immature teen scene flick epidemic. Aside from all that, this has to be the least oscarworthy screen jaunt that I have even encountered. Hilary Duff has managed to play Lizzie Mc Guire in every movie she has been in. Her over the top valley girlesque persona is, at best, flat and lifeless. Chad Michael Murray, as cute as the boy is, has stooped to new lows. It is obvious that he is far too old for the movie, plus this is a complete departure of anything that Murray is qualified to play. The football player is a stretch for someone who is so in tune with his bad boy image. Overall, I would not recommend this movie for anyone over the age of ten. Ignorance comes with youth, and in this case ignorance to decent movie making is,without a doubt, bliss.
this movie rox
posted on 30 Apr 2009i love this movie i could watch it a million times (well i already have) but i could watch it a million more times. i think that chad Michael Murray and Hillary duff did such an awesome job together in this movie. its a cool movie and if u haven't seen it yet u betta go nd see it now. chad Michael Murray is so hot and Hillary duff i love all her movies she is in especially a Cinderella story and raise your voice. i cant get enough of this movie i have the music nd everything. this movie rocks i love the dress Hillary looks so pretty when she wears it. chad Michael Murray's outfit is cool 2. i loved the salt and pepper shakers they had me laughing. so as i have said before i love this movie its rocks.
One of the worst movies I have ever seen
posted on 28 Apr 2009After being forced to see this movie, I feel like a small part of me has died. I understand that this movie was intended for younger viewers, but that is no excuse for overwhelming lack of plot and direction.The dialogue had no depth and the acting was sub par, this sorry excuse of a movie will leave a bad taste in your mouth. I make it a habit to never walk out of a movie however; every moment of watching this was predictable and torture. I would strongly suggest that anyone who values his or her time or money avoid this movie.
A simple movie that does what it sets out to do..
posted on 22 Apr 2009This is the kind of movie reviewers and cynics love to sink their teeth in, tear it up and rip it to pieces for everything it "does wrong". Without taking into account that the things it "does wrong" are simply the requirements that this type of movie has to have in order to give it's audience what it expects.1 A simple and predictable story.2 Stereotypical character's3 Obstacles' that stop the leads from getting together, that would never stop anyone in the real world from doing so..4 Cheesy and cliché moral of the story messages. I knew what I was in for before watching this, and that is why I watched it. I knew the story was going to be the story of Cinderella in a modern setting. The title of this movie is a Cinderela Story, what else is there to expect?I knew the character's would be the same as in any other high school movie.. They always are.I knew the obstacles' the lead character's would have to face before coming together would be nonexistent in the real world. Movies have a knack for making things that are simple in the real world look complicated, and things that are complicated in the real world look simple..And that I would have to grind my teeth because of the lessons it would try to teach, after all, this is a Hollywood movie. I knew this from the start. And therefore would not, and will not bash it for doing what it does, dish out all those things without shame. I loved this movie, it delivers all I expect and want from a movie like this. It's not complicated, it's charming, I genuinely wanted the leads to get together. Everyone gets what they deserve in the end. And at the end of it all I had a big smile on my face..Sure it could have been a lot better, the script could have been sharper, the editing is a mess, the cinematography is the level of a T.V. movie.. But all that did not bother me that much because, I did not expect it to go beyond what it delivers. This is a 19 million dollar budget, Hillary Duff vehicle. It delivers everything that anyone could reasonably expect from it. If that is not enough for you, don't watch this movie. If it is, this movie could just be for you.With that in mind I give it 8 out of 10.
A Cinderella Story=Excellent
posted on 18 Aug 2009This film is one of my favourite. People may think I am sad having watched this teen chick flick over 20 times and sometimes watching it up to 5 times a day, but in a way I can relate to this film and when I watch it I kinda escape from reality and am in the film.I am a teenager and being unpopular isn't uncommon. Well it wasn't with me in high school. I wasn't exactly the most popular girl in high school and this is probably why I love this film so much. I am a born dreamer and so when this girl that is unpopular with the popular kids in school falls for the most popular guy in school and these feelings are reciprocated it had me hooked. Many teen rom-coms are like this, but I love Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. Jennifer Coolidge also plays a fantastic part in this film as the wicked step-mother.This modern day Cinderella Story is funky and hip and uses modern day technology to help create the story. The glass slipper - a cell phone etc. I would definitely recommend people to watch this movie, especially if you have a broad imagination and are a dreamer. 10/10