Ever After - A Cinderella Story

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Summary: An Instant Classic is Born!
Review: "Ever After: A Cinderella Story" redefines the terms of a "fairy tale". The story is actually a flashback from the great-grandaughter of "Cinderella", who is actually named Danielle. The story opens with eight-year-old Danielle's father returning with her new stepmother and stepsisters. The very next day, Danielle's father leaves the manor and dies of a heart attack before passing the gates. Ten years later, Danielle has been reduced to nothing more than a servant, while her stepfamily lives the life of luxury. One day, the prince steals one of Danielle's horses and is brutally hit by Danielle. When he is recognized by her, he pays her a large sum to keep her silence. With that money, Danielle dresses as a courtier and frees Mauriece, a servant the Baroness (her stepmother) sold to pay taxes. When the prince sees her, she gives him an alias: Comtess Nicole de Lancret. The king tells the prince that he will host a masque and either choose his bride before that night or he will marry a Spanish princess. Now that the masque is approaching, Danielle is rushing here and there to see the prince, but to make sure that her family doesn't discover her. And to make matters worse, the Baroness is trying extra hard to make sure that her daughter, Marguerite, weds the prince. On the night of the masque, the Baroness discovers Danielle's charade and locks her in the cellar. How will Danielle escape and get to the masque? With "Nicole" not there, who will the prince choose to marry? All of your questions will be answered after you take in the classic "Ever After: A Cinderella Story."

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Summary: Surprisingly wonderful and charming- Ever After
Review: Ever After has become one of my all time favorite movies. It's an easy going and relaxing movie complete with beautiful landscapes and costumes. It is suitable for watching over and over again, although it is disapointing that the only special features the DVD has is a theatrical trailer. Drew Barrymore is delightful and believable as the true cinderella.

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Summary: Wow what a movie!
Review: Perhaps when you expect nothing out of a movie and get in abundance it leaves you spellbound. I watched the movie and since then I could think of nothing else.
It is perfect...(the english accent notwithstanding).
Drew Barrymore was great, so was Angelica Huston, so was Maegan Dodd.
But how come so few of the reviewers are forgetting to mention Dougray Scott?! The man was fabulous!
The dialogues were great...("You're looking well Marguarite"..."You are Welcome to look your Highness") and some such.
We want to see more of such movies! Cheers!

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Summary: Excellent Movie!!!
Review: This is a great movie! It has everything to attract everyone, men or women! Action, romance, laughs, everything. Everyone plays there part well and together they make up a great movie! I can watch this over and over, I highly recommend!

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Summary: Funny, charming, superb!
Review: Drew Barrymore is perfect as a strong, courageous, imaginative Cinderella, whose prince falls in love with her for her character and wit rather than her beauty. Angelica Huston is absolutely splendid as the wicked stepmother. She and Drew Barrymore make this movie! The supporting actors are also superb. The setting is realistic and the human psychology far more realistic than the fairy-tale cartoon that everyone has seen. Get this!

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Summary: Finally, a Cinderella story that's believable
Review: After all the years of interpreting the fairy tale of Cinderella, here is one rendition that is as it should have been in the beginning. Drew Barrymore gives her best performance as the deprived Cinderella and Andy Tennant is not nearly as charming as a prince as Walt Disney has led us to believe for 20 years. I love the darkness of the film, bringing out the gloominess of the era it was set in. The original costuming designs are true to period and the storyline is addictive. I recommend this film to anyone with a passion for romance.

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Summary: My favorite movie!!
Review: I always seem to get lost in this one! I loved it the first time I saw it, and still do. I just requested it on DVD since I no longer have a VCR and am not able to watch it.

My husband even watches it!!

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Summary: What a great get-away movie!
Review: This is one of our favorites to pop into the VCR. Wonderful for a rainy day or when you just want to curl-up in your favorite chair. My husband will even sit down and watch it with us!

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Summary: Drew's best film to date
Review: Ever after is a beautiful cinderella story that portraits a strong and willed woman as cinderella. Settings are very good and the mood of the film is extraordinary. All comes to a beautiful love story very well cast.

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Summary: A Moving, Beautiful, Wonderful Movie
Review: This is a wonderful movie. The premise may be cliché, but this is much, much more than just another "Cinderella" movie. Its effects are really quite magical--it will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will totally immerse you in its spell. If you are human, it will produce a lump in your throat that will remain there for hours. Some people might call this a "woman's" movie, but I, as a man, will proclaim that it really touches my heart every time I watch it, and I freely admit that it does bring tears to my eyes. I need not go into detail describing the plot--it is a somewhat modernized Cinderella story, replete with the evil stepmother, charming prince, and angelic, mistreated heroine. Instead of a fairy godmother, there is Leonardo da Vinci--an unexpected but brilliant scripting decision, I feel. There are no magic pumpkins turning into horses and carriages, but there is magic; it is the magic of true love.

The entire cast is superb, particularly Anjelica Huston as the evil stepmother, but all of them are overshadowed by Drew Barrymore. Anyone who does not feel that Drew Barrymore is one of the greatest actresses of this and any other generation has obviously not seen this movie. I love all of Drew's movies, but I really believe this movie represents her finest performance. Even down to the most unimportant nuances of acting, she is simply brilliant. She is equally convincing as a peasant in the field as she is a royal courtier among the nobility of France. The emotion she is able to express to the audience is deep and amazingly real. I really can't say enough about her performance here.

All I can do is encourage you to experience this movie. I believe you will want to watch it more than once; it is just as fresh and moving the second and third time as it is the first. Don't dismiss it as a "sappy love story" or think its 16th century setting will make it hard to relate to. This is a story as old as time itself, really, and it is a story that will always be relevant to humankind. It celebrates the power of true love and shows all of us that dreams can indeed come true.