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The Princess Diaries
Mia Thermopolis is a teenage klutz who's openly mocked by the popular Lana Thomas. Mia's life takes a dramatic turn, however, when her mom announces that her late biological father was in actuality the crown prince of a small European nation, Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her 16th year.
3 October 1982, San Diego, California, USA
21 March 1977, Canton, Ohio, USA
1940, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy
10 September 1963, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
5 June 1969, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
15 December 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
10 April 1984, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
December 28, 2010
Terrific fun for girls and their families, too.March 09, 2009
This Cinderella fantasy transforms a geek into a princess, and teaches a few life lessons along the way.August 03, 2001
A sweet movie from a sweet director.August 07, 2008
Marshall milks the San Francisco scenery for all it's worth, but is all thumbs when it comes to squeezing the full comic possibilities of the story...May 01, 2011
This fairy tale, which feels as if it were made in the 1960s, deatures a star-making performance from the child-actress Anne HathawayMarch 09, 2009
That this failed is largely down to the stilted, clichéd dialogue of the screenplay; fans of the wittier novel by Meg Cabot may well be disappointed.July 21, 2005
Screenwriter Gina Wendkos, working from Meg Cabot's novel, resorts to monotonous movie clichés: almost uniformly cruel classmates and a callous, cacophonous mob of media jackals.July 19, 2009
The unexpected rewards of director Garry Marshall's ("Beaches") latest spin on the well-worn Pygmalion fairy tale are numerous.August 03, 2001
Hardly a cross-dressing update of My Fair Lady. But in its own blanded-down fashion, it captures just enough of that show's metamorphic zest to make you wish it were.August 07, 2001
A modest, enjoyable fairy tale that easily outcharms its animated stablemates of the past decade.February 09, 2006
Notions of responsibility, surrogacy, rites of passage and the value of friendship are gone through, but the highlighting of modern tropes merely serves to emphasise the film's conventionality.August 03, 2001
Bumpy but endearing.