I think the Magic Kingdom really tapped into something basic in The Princess
Diaries. What young girl especially one as socially challenged as Anne Hathaway
is in this film would't like to wake up and be told you're a princess.
But that's what happens to Hathaway, a young high school girl who pines for the high school hunk Erik Von Detten, but when we meet her blows lunch during what is a debate class. She's a social misfit and her only real friends brother and sister Robert Schwartzman and Heather Matarazzo.
So after that debate performance she finds out from mother Caroline Goodall that her recently separated and deceased dad was heir to a Monaco like principality and her grandmother is the Dowager Queen Julie Andrews who lives over at the country's consulate in San Francisco as they do. She's high hatted them for years and it comes as some shock to Hathaway that she's a royal heir.
The rest of the film is taken up with Hathaway learning a few social graces. And when the school finds out she's a blood royal princess Hathaway still has some problems with a squad of mean plastic cheerleaders headed by Mandy Moore.
There are some very funny moments in The Princess Diaries, but it's also a rather sweet tale of a girl coming rather publicly of age.
For those who dream of dreams coming true, The Princess Diaries is your kind of film.
But that's what happens to Hathaway, a young high school girl who pines for the high school hunk Erik Von Detten, but when we meet her blows lunch during what is a debate class. She's a social misfit and her only real friends brother and sister Robert Schwartzman and Heather Matarazzo.
So after that debate performance she finds out from mother Caroline Goodall that her recently separated and deceased dad was heir to a Monaco like principality and her grandmother is the Dowager Queen Julie Andrews who lives over at the country's consulate in San Francisco as they do. She's high hatted them for years and it comes as some shock to Hathaway that she's a royal heir.
The rest of the film is taken up with Hathaway learning a few social graces. And when the school finds out she's a blood royal princess Hathaway still has some problems with a squad of mean plastic cheerleaders headed by Mandy Moore.
There are some very funny moments in The Princess Diaries, but it's also a rather sweet tale of a girl coming rather publicly of age.
For those who dream of dreams coming true, The Princess Diaries is your kind of film.