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06/24/06
A Cinderella Story (2004)
10 %
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
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 late father's diner, thus earning the eternal disdain... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Jennifer Coolidge, Regina King
Director: Mark Rosman
Screenwriter: Leigh Dunlap
Producer: Clifford Werber, Ilyssa Goodman, Hunt Lowry, Dylan Sellers
Composer: Christophe Beck
Screenwriter: Leigh Dunlap
Producer: Clifford Werber, Ilyssa Goodman, Hunt Lowry, Dylan Sellers
Composer: Christophe Beck
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This is simple, lazy storytelling rendered merely functional by appealing leads and the eternal lure of romantic fantasy.
08/19/04
Top Critic
Every high school cliché in the book is dredged up for this piece of fluff
08/19/04
Top Critic
The result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky-clean, helium-voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.
08/03/04
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With a few hilarious exceptions, the jokes are bland and unfunny, and the fairy tale reinventions aren't creative or witty enough.
07/19/04
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?
09/11/06
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12/19/04
'A Cinderella Story' makes so many good chocies, you wish you could like it more than you do.
11/04/04
Rather than anything original or humorous or, heaven forbid, romantic developing from this fable, we get only tired clichés and worn-out stereotypes.
10/18/04
People who wear glass slippers shouldn't go around kicking the crap out of fairytales.
10/11/04
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.
08/07/04
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08/01/04
This year's one-zillionth mean-girl movie, and that's not the only thing here that's played out.
07/23/04
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