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.
13 December 1945, Long Beach, California, USA
17 November 1984, San Diego, California, USA
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15 October 1953, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
15 August 1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 May 1970, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
6 November 1962, Burbank, California, USA
24 December 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 December 1970, Queens, New York, USA
1 December 1955, Florence, Alabama, USA
22 December 1936, New York City, New York, USA
10 November 1982, Long Island, New York, USA
21 March 1977, Canton, Ohio, USA
20 March 1934, Mineola, Texas, USA
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 HathawayAugust 07, 2001
A modest, enjoyable fairy tale that easily outcharms its animated stablemates of the past decade.August 03, 2001
Bumpy but endearing.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
A sweet movie from a sweet director.March 09, 2009
This Cinderella fantasy transforms a geek into a princess, and teaches a few life lessons along the way.March 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 19, 2009
The unexpected rewards of director Garry Marshall's ("Beaches") latest spin on the well-worn Pygmalion fairy tale are numerous.December 28, 2010
Terrific fun for girls and their families, too.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...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.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.