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07/28/04
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A Cinderella Story (2004)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:4
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.9/10
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
Top CriticA Cinderella Story doesn't break any new ground, but it's a well-acted little breeze of a film -- perfect if you're a 12-year-old girl.
07/19/04
Top CriticLet me get quickly to the word that best describes this movie. It is horrible.
07/16/04
Top CriticYou can say of this movie, truly, that they took the most famous tale in the world and broke it.
07/16/04
Top CriticDesperately conceived by even the most insipid standards of contemporary teen-queen cinema.
07/16/04
Top CriticGive this wannabe Cinderella a big Bibbitti Bobbitti Boo.
07/16/04
Top CriticIt's not a terrible movie, just a disappointingly pleasant one.
07/16/04
Top CriticIts take is about as original as its title, full of recycled ideas and half-hearted performances.
07/16/04
Top CriticAn instantly forgettable wisp of marshmallow that revisits the same teen-crush cliches that have surely been in play since the days of the classic fairy tale it ransacks for inspiration.
07/16/04
Top CriticThe Prince is a wet rag, the slapstick stepsisters are dull and even the fretful Sam seems colorless.
07/16/04
Top CriticDuff plays off her Lizzie Maguire persona as a cute but unassuming girl, but also conveys soulfulness and earnest longing.
07/16/04
Top CriticContent to be another candy-coloured fantasy. It'd be easier to enjoy it as such if most of the young characters here weren't mean-spirited caricatures who chiefly serve to illustrate Sam's virtues.
07/16/04
Top CriticNothing's particularly risky or original, but neither is anything all that repulsive.
07/16/04
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
Top CriticA terrible movie, sappy and dead in the water.
07/16/04
Top CriticMean 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
Top CriticFeels like a pro forma TV movie from the get-go and relies almost entirely on Duff's likability to hold the audience's attention.
07/15/04
Top CriticThe movie strains to bend the fairy tale to accommodate another coarse high school comedy of air-headed teenage vixens ganging up on a meek little angel.
07/15/04
Top CriticA step down for Duff, who owes her fans and herself something fresher than another lazy rehash of the world's most-exploited fairy tale.
07/15/04
Top CriticIn 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
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