The Princess Diaries
The reproach of Mia soon ends when she realizes her assumed late biological father was in actuality the crown prince of a small European nation, Genovia.
14 August 1963, Dallas, Texas, USA
10 May 1977, Houston, Texas, USA
10 December 1983, Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
13 December 1945, Long Beach, California, USA
18 May 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 December 1955, Florence, Alabama, USA
12 November 1982, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1960, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1939, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1959, London, England, UK
10 September 1963, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
17 November 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
July 19, 2009
The unexpected rewards of director Garry Marshall's ("Beaches") latest spin on the well-worn Pygmalion fairy tale are numerous.
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.
March 09, 2009
This Cinderella fantasy transforms a geek into a princess, and teaches a few life lessons along the way.
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 Hathaway
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 07, 2001
A modest, enjoyable fairy tale that easily outcharms its animated stablemates of the past decade.
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...
August 03, 2001
A sweet movie from a sweet director.
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.
August 03, 2001
Bumpy but endearing.
