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06/24/06
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
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)... [More]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Jennifer Coolidge
Director: Mark Rosman
Reviews for A Cinderella Story
Top CriticThis is simple, lazy storytelling rendered merely functional by appealing leads and the eternal lure of romantic fantasy.
08/19/04
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08/19/04
Every high school cliché in the book is dredged up for this piece of fluff
08/19/04
Top CriticThe result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky-clean, helium-voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.
08/03/04
Top CriticWith a few hilarious exceptions, the jokes are bland and unfunny, and the fairy tale reinventions aren't creative or witty enough.
07/19/04
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04/29/09
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10/18/08
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08/07/08
Charles Perrault must be spinning in his grave.
06/13/08
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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12/06/05
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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
A benign, whimsical semblance of its namesake fairy tale.
09/16/04
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08/16/04
It's all way too bland.
08/08/04
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
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