03 A Cinderella Story (2004)

A Cinderella Story (2004)

A Cinderella Story (2004) – Samantha ‘Sam’ Montgomery (Hilary Duff) lived a semi-fairytale life with her widowed father when she was 8 years old in a suburb in California. Later, her father opened up a Diner named after him and fell in love with a woman named Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge) who he later married. One day, a falling support beam kills her father in the 1994 Northridge earthquake and leaves her with her plastic-surgery-salmon-eating-obsessed stepmother and her two cruel stepsisters Brianna (Madeline Zima) and Gabriella (Andrea Avery). 10 years later, Sam is a straight-A student enduring her uncaring stepmother’s wrath, who turned her father’s cafe into a girly hot-pink hot spot and forces her to work as a “diner girl”. In addition to her family, Sam must deal with the “popular” girls at school, led by the lead cheerleader, Shelby (Julie Gonzalo) who, according to Carter (Dan Byrd) “wants him so bad”. Sam confides in her best friend Carter and cyber-space, pen-pal, her “secret admirer” who wants to attend Princeton with her. What she doesn’t know is that her secret admirer turns out to be Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray), quarterback of the football team and the most popular boy at school who is currently dating Shelby.

Distribution movie A Cinderella Story
Genres: Romance / Family / Comedy
Starring: Simon Helberg, Erica Hubbard, Kevin Kilner, Whip Hubley, Paul Rodriguez, Mary Pat Gleason, Andrea Avery, Madeline Zima, Lin Shaye, Julie Gonzalo, Regina King, Dan Byrd, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge, Hilary Duff
Director: Mark Rosman
Country: Canada, United States
Year: 2004