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Movie
description |
-Hilary
Duff
-Chad
Michael
Murray
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)
Sam
is
forced
to
scrub
floors
at
her
late
father's
diner,
thus
earning
the
eternal
disdain
of
the
snooty
popular
kids
in
school.
Luckily
she
has
a
friend
in
artsy
nerd
Carter
(Dan
Byrd),
and
a
text-message
romance
with
some
poetic
schoolmate
she's
never
met.
She
also
has
a
fairy
godmother
in
the
sweet
diner
manager
(Regina
King),
who
helps
Sam
get
decked
out
and
disguised
for
the
Halloween
dance.
At
the
dance,
she
discovers
her
prince
is
one
of
the
popular
kids,
Austin
Ames
(Chad
Michael
Murray).
Happily
ever
after
seems
like
a
long
shot,
though,
because
Austin
is
burdened
by
pressures
at
school
and
at
home,
and
Sam
can't
shake
her
"diner
girl"
inferiority
complex.
This
fairy
tale
comes
with
plenty
of
wit,
style,
and
heart.
It
moves
along
too
fast
to
be
sappy,
and
broadly
razzes
the
shallowness
of
popular
kids,
their
stupid
parents,
and
whiny
siblings
in a
way
that
should
balm
the
unhealed
wounds
of
anyone
who's
ever
been
to
high
school.
Byrd
makes
a
winning
and
somewhat
cool
nerd,
Murray
shows
princely
posture
as
the
tortured
poet-quarterback,
and
Duff
firmly
establishes
herself
as a
first-rate
young
actress
with
luminous
major-league
screen
presence.
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