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The Princess Diaries

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7.0/10 • 4.9K

2001-08-031h 55m

ComedyFamilyRomance

She rocks. She rules. She reigns.

A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne.

Directors
Garry Marshall
Editors
Bruce Green

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  1. Anne Hathaway

    Anne Hathaway

    Mia Thermopolis

  2. Julie Andrews

    Julie Andrews

    Queen Clarisse Renaldi

  3. Heather Matarazzo

    Heather Matarazzo

    Lilly Moscovitz

  4. Caroline Goodall

    Caroline Goodall

    Helen Thermopolis

  5. Hector Elizondo

    Hector Elizondo

    Joe

  6. Robert Schwartzman

    Robert Schwartzman

    Michael Moscovitz

  7. Erik von Detten

    Erik von Detten

    Josh Bryant

  8. Patrick John Flueger

    Patrick John Flueger

    Jeremiah Hart

  9. Sandra Oh

    Sandra Oh

    Vice Principal Gupta

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Kamurai

Aug 6, 2020

6/10

Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. This feels like a trope, but I'm honestly not sure if "surprise, you're royal" is a trope. Making up a country for this also feels like a special sub-trope. What I'm sure is a trope is the "She's All That" where you have a clumsy, homely girl that you turn into a beautiful, graceful desirable. The fun of cultures clashing between America and "Genovia" is fun, and a family reuniting is touching, but all the high school girl drama, all the flavors, is overdone and boring. I understand it is needed to develop Mia as a character with which we empathize, but there have to be better ways to establish a character. Unfortunately, we would lose quite a lot by speeding it up, so I get it. While this movie doesn't do much special, it's equally good from start to finish, and reliably so.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$37,000,000.00
Revenue
$165,335,153.00
Keywords
princesshigh schoolbased on novel or bookgrandparent grandchild relationshipheir to the throneroyaltysocial outcastfictitious countrybased on young adult novelrelaxedjoyful