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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 126931
Released: April 18, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Meet high school student Sam (Hilary Duff), who scrubs floors at a diner, copes with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, and all the while dreams of Princeton (the perfect spot for a would-be princess to find a prince). But maybe she has a Prince Charming already: her anonymous e-mail buddy (Chad Michael Murray), who arranges to meet her at the Halloween dance. Sam panics when Mr. Anonymous turns out to be the coolest guy on campus. Can he love a girl who isn't part of the in crowd? Can fairy tales come true? Sure - but only if Sam stands up for herself and turns her dreams into reality.
Description of A Cinderella Story (Mother's Day Gift Set with Card and Gift Wrap):
If you are one of Hilary Duff's most ardent pre-teen fans, chances are you'll find something to enjoy in A Cinderella Story, but everyone else should proceed with caution. It's an updated fairy tale for the age of instant messaging, which is how Sam (Duff) develops a crush on Austin (Chad Michael Murray) before realizing that this Tennyson-quoting poet-at-heart is actually her San Fernando Valley high school's star quarterback and most desirable hunk. In a role that squanders her proven comedic gifts, Jennifer Coolidge is Sam's Botox-injected evil stepmother, and lame attempts at comedy turn her dimwitted stepsisters into buffoons, like many of the other cast members who struggle to find anything funny in the screenplay. So we're left with the bland, blonde charms of Hilary Duff, who fared better in The Lizzie McGuire Movie, but manages to salvage her mainstream appeal in a comedy for which "cute" is not necessarily a compliment. --Jeff Shannon
A Cinderella Story (Mother's Day Gift Set with Card and Gift Wrap) Reviews:
"Very Cute" 
2009-11-30 - I will admit I bought "A Cinderella Story" because I have a huge crush on Chad Michael Murry; he is not hard on the eyes! However, I became a huge fan of Hilary Duff because of this movie. Hilary plays a girl being raised by her dad who has been remarried to a woman with two daughters. Hilary's character is an out-cast and shunned by her new relatives. Through the internet she meets the boy of her dreams, a jock and the most popular boy at his school. The plot involves their eventual meeting and ultimate love affair. A better-than-average teen comedy/drama, "A Cinderella Story" is well done, well acted, and entertaining. I enjoyed all the characters, especially the leads. The movie would gross over $70 million at the boxoffice and solidify Hilary Duff as a movie star attraction. The DVD comes with additional scenes, music video, screen tests, trailer, featurette, and more.
Movie was good, ending was bad 
2009-11-14 - This was a cute twist on Cinderella, where Hilary Duff's character's father dies in an earth quake and leaves her with her new step-mother and step-sisters. It's funny, kid-friendly, cute, and all-round a good movie. It shows her and and her "prince" going through hell and back to be together. They both make life-changing decisions. It's the sort of story that ends with a wedding, the two who've been through so much to be together in all their love finally will be together forever. But how does it end? With Duff's character saying something along the lines of, "And that's my story of true love. At least for now. After all, I'm only 16, who knows when I'll dump this guy." So this entire story is pointless because she's just a twit who's going to flit away to the next guy who walks by. But what about true love? What about everything they went through to be together? That's all meaningless because "I'm only 16 and will have a dozen 'true loves' before I find my REAL true love." I understand that at 16 you're still a kid, and you do change and grow up and mature a lot before you're an adult. But don't make this big life-changing, dramatic story about true love... if it's just a passing fling, like so many others she plans to have. If you ignore that, turn the volume down and watch the ending in silence, you'll enjoy this movie a lot more cause you won't hear her telling everyone she's just going to pass herself around.
A Cinderella Story 
2009-11-01 - Ok, I've seen better movies. Especially from Hilary Duff. This movie was not your typical "Cinderella" type. More like it's the daily life between a step-parent and the kid. It happens everyday, why make a movie? Hilary has done way better movies! Better luck next time Hilary=]
great teenage love story
2009-10-15 - I bought the movie because I lost my first too & I simply couldnt live without it. The movie is a modern cinderella love story where the overlooked girl gets the popular guy & they fit together perfectly. This movie is great for all ages it doesnt have any bad seens,words, or anything parents neeed to watch out for for their child. I recomeend thid movie to any yound or older girl who loves a good movie with a a great story.
Light and Cute 
2009-10-13 - I am wayyyy past the age bracket of the target audience of this movie. Nevertheless, I actually had a good time watching this movie. It is wholesome, sweet and quite funny. Hillary Duff, however lame or teen-boppy you may think she is, she does have a certain screen presence to her and is quite watchable. As for the role of a modern day Cinderella, she was a perfect fit - A good girl who learns to stand up for herself and wins the prince in the end. Some excellent additions to the cast were Regina King and Jennifer Coolidge. These actresses made the film become a real movie. Regina King is the modern day fairy godmother but definitely with an edge and Jennifer Coolidge - isn't the name enough? She was downright hilarious and just fabulous, as always. I was thinking that if I were a teenager, I would have dove right into this movie. I was thinking about it from a mother's point of view, too. This movie is definitely risk-free in many ways. The only precaution I'd have is Cindrella's correspondence with a perfect stranger that she met in a chat room. :)
Even if you're not a teen or a tween, I think if you're fan of a light romance movie or don't mind reminiscing the cute old days of just dreaming of prince charming, I'm sure you'll enjoy this modern day Cinderella story.
