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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.
Theatrical Release:Jul 16, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $51,392,209
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
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Reviews for A Cinderella Story
Mostly boring, sometimes quite clumsy, and never particularly interesting.
07/14/04
Thanks to a charming cast and several bubbly moments, adults in the audience may find themselves genuinely entertained by the pleasantly feathery story.
07/15/04
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07/20/04
The result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky-clean, helium-voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.
08/03/04
Mean Girls it's not; a plastic butter knife has more edge. But sometimes it's nice to know your kids won't cut their fingers.
07/16/04
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07/20/04
The only thing missing is the pumpkin that turns into a coach. That’s OK, because Duff turns into a turkey way before midnight.
07/23/04
Leigh Dunlap's script abounds in one-liners of mild pedigree at best, and under the direction of Mark Rosman a timeless tale has been transformed into an enervated sitcom.
07/16/04
A terrible movie, sappy and dead in the water.
07/16/04
Top CriticDuff needed to channel TV-Lizzie for this role, but instead she gives us milquetoast.
07/15/04
The timeless fairy tale is updated into a cookie-cutter specimen of the teen-girl comedy.
07/15/04
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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04/29/09
[It] treads the confused ground of instilling anti-image and antiauthoritarian values while its heroine’s bliss is wrapped in an idea that status and wealth equal happiness.
07/20/04
A sloppy, idiotic mess that demonstrates nothing but contempt for anyone deluded enough to actually watch it.
07/16/04
In typical Lizzie spirit, it's harmless, it's sweet, it's corny, it's fun and it all comes out impossibly right.
07/15/04
Top CriticThe movie starts off keenly aware of the hokum of fairy-tale schemes. Yet, like a slew of similarly themed movies (The Prince & Me and 13 Going on 30), it has a hard time giving its audience a brand-new vision.
07/16/04
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07/28/04
Top CriticAnyone who's not already a Duff fan should stay away. And given the lack of energy and innovation at work here, even fans may find this one redundant and lackluster.
07/16/04
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