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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 6277
Released: October 19, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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AC-3 Closed-captioned Color Dolby Dubbed DVD Subtitled Full Screen NTSC | |
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.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes
Audio Commentary:Hilary Duff and other castmembers
Challenges:Find Your Prince/Princess Challenge: See video clips and answer questions to see who your true love is.
Featurette:Cinderella Couture: The Making of a Fashionably Modern Fairytale: A featurette on the costumes and makeup that at first "made under" and later made over Hillary Duff.
Music Video:"Our Lips are Sealed" by sisters Hilary and Hallie Duff
Other:PRE-SELL DATE TBD
Description of A Cinderella Story (Full Screen Edition):
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 (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
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.
Anything is Possible, if you just Believe...
2009-07-07 - This movie celebrates virginity, and that is what makes it so
special. Also, Hilary Duff is in this one. And also that girl who
was in that picture with you know who. That said,...
When two fall in love, they wed. And when they lie down together,
they marry, as in, the two become one flesh. A wedding ceremony
usually occurs between a wedding and a marriage. A wedding
ceremony is foreplay. Some are more creative than others. For
some, a wedding ceremony consists of music, and privacy.
But for others, it is a public spectacle, complete with a cathedral
backdrop, a white gown, a black tux, a ring, and an official who
makes a speech, and says, "I now pronounce you..." And then there
is the paperwork.
In this movie, they wed, without seeing each other. They text each
other, and find each other through each other's words, but will
Nomad (he's not mad, he's just "serious") and Princeton Girl
still want each other when he sees her? And so, she wants to
keep her distance, while taking a few steps towards greater
intimacy, greater wedding. Will they get to a ceremony? A Halloween
Ball: She shows up as Cinderella Girl, to meet Nomad, who shows
up as himself, Austin Aimes (I guess if you had a name like Aimes,
you would want to reassure others that you were not mad, and avoid
carrying a sword, or avoid wearing shades, like the characters, Carter
and Terry do at the Ball. He tells his friends that he lost his Musketeer
costume to explain why he showed up as Prince Charming. Is he
wearing a mask?)
She wears a veil, a kind of mask. Her dress, and mask, is "True Blue".
She knows him, but he can't see beyond her mask: It is a Clark and
Lois thing. Will she take off her glasses? ("A girl hit that!"...Maybe she
was being serious about her swing?) The angels show up to play a
tune, or perhaps they are time travelling minstrels practising their craft
on unsuspecting couples, but whoever they are, they are out of place
with the crowd inside, but complete the ceremony, their private ceremony.
He was supposed to show up as a Musketeer, but is now out of place
amongst the other two, as Prince Charming. He is one of three, but the
other two in his party, don't complete him. Neither can he relate to Zoro
or Mr. Anderson, who are in black. But there are three angels, two
siamese cats, and a salt and pepper shaker. What could all this mean?
In any case, the temperature starts to climb, when she is saved by a bell
tone...Her car, Carter, awaits, to take her "home", which in this case is a
diner. Cinderella Girl, Princeton Girl, and Diner Girl, which of these three
seems out of place? Which one is Samantha Montgomery (or Sam)?
Nomad, that's what he calls himself, to stay anonymous, but she
knows him, Austin Aimes, for Diner Girl (that's her) has served
him before, at her evil stepmom's diner, where she is forced to
endure as her servant stepdaughter. 'The Salmon Diet' is the
title of her stepmom's book, but it is Sam (Diner Girl, Cinderella
Girl) who diets, or fasts. But that's OK, because her mind is
elsewhere, food is down there on the priority list. She dreams of
going to Princeton, for that's where the Princes are, or so her dad
(now deceased) used to tell her. Wherefore, she needs to busk
tables in order to save for tuition: Samantha Montgomery, "the
Salmon", must diet.
There are three friendship circles: The circular table at the diner,
the circle bench at the school, and the network of support,
"circle of friends", the students rely on. Sam, uses an email
network, or text messaging system, for two. Words can tell
you a lot about another: For example, how good is her English, and
how lazy does she think she can get with her grammar while still
keeping your attention...Likewise, what you choose to wear, tells
another what you think about yourself, I think. Rhonda chose her
costume for her, while Sam allowed herself to be a canvas upon
which others could paint their impressions of her: Nun, Pig, Joan
of Arc, Hula Girl, etc...Does a mother not know her child? Rhonda
painted her, "Like a Virgin"...I have seen this movie more times than
Star Wars, and I like science fiction.
They kiss, and a raindrop appears:
Oops...Put out the sparks, Cinder_ella, before you start a fire and
get expelled from the nunnery. Again, Wedding, Wedding Ceremony,
A Kiss, Marriage. Or, Wedding, Wedding Ceremony, A kiss, changed
my mind, annulment: Breaking up, is really not that difficult, when you
put your mind to it. It is merely a question of logic, over emotion.
Carter says, "Anything is possible, if you just believe". Well, sort of.
God is Love. All things are possible with Him, but that does not mean
all things will be. Nevertheless, Faith works by Love. I hope she kept
the mask. A virgin is an unmarried woman. She might be wed ("in love")
though.
This movie makes more sense than those "promise to remain chaste
until after I walk down the wedding aisle" documents some make children
sign at Bible camps. Why would you coerce somebody into making a
vow before God that he might not be able to keep? It is like "they" want
to bind those children into a curse, so that the children might be damned:
See, Judges 11: 30-35; Acts 23:12-13, KJV.
