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<strong>Title:</strong> The Princess Diaries<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2001<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Garry Marshall<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> This teen comedy from Disney is based on a popular novel by Meg Cabot and directed by <a href="/players/P___101401/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Garry Marshall</a>. Mia Thermopolis (<a href="/players/P___292630/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anne Hathaway</a>) is a teenage klutz who's openly mocked by the popular Lana Thomas (pop singer Mandy Moore). In fact, Mia's only friend at her exclusive prep school is the socially outcast Lilly (<a href="/players/P___200440/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Heather Matarazzo</a>). 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. Now Mia is the sole heir to the throne, and her grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (<a href="/players/P_____1721/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Julie Andrews</a>) wants to tutor the awkward teen in royal behavior. It's a daunting task given Mia's lax table manners, poise, and hair care, but the girl perseveres with some makeover help from her grandmother's security chief <a href="/players/P____21552/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Hector Elizondo</a>) and a style expert (<a href="/players/P____49264/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Larry Miller</a>). In the meantime, Mia's romantic affections are torn between the handsome, popular Josh (<a href="/players/P____73840/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Erik Von Detten</a>) and the more appropriate Michael (<a href="/players/P___292865/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robert Schwartzman</a>), who also happens to be Lilly's brother. The Princess Diaries is the second film from <a href="/players/P____33436/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Whitney Houston</a>'s production shingle after the television version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 31<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 19<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 3<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:47:54 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>The Princess Diaries</spout:Title><spout:Year>2001</spout:Year><spout:Director>Garry Marshall</spout:Director><spout:Plot>This teen comedy from Disney is based on a popular novel by Meg Cabot and directed by &lt;a href="/players/P___101401/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Garry Marshall&lt;/a&gt;. Mia Thermopolis (&lt;a href="/players/P___292630/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Anne Hathaway&lt;/a&gt;) is a teenage klutz who's openly mocked by the popular Lana Thomas (pop singer Mandy Moore). In fact, Mia's only friend at her exclusive prep school is the socially outcast Lilly (&lt;a href="/players/P___200440/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Heather Matarazzo&lt;/a&gt;). 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. Now Mia is the sole heir to the throne, and her grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (&lt;a href="/players/P_____1721/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Julie Andrews&lt;/a&gt;) wants to tutor the awkward teen in royal behavior. It's a daunting task given Mia's lax table manners, poise, and hair care, but the girl perseveres with some makeover help from her grandmother's security chief &lt;a href="/players/P____21552/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Hector Elizondo&lt;/a&gt;) and a style expert (&lt;a href="/players/P____49264/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Larry Miller&lt;/a&gt;). In the meantime, Mia's romantic affections are torn between the handsome, popular Josh (&lt;a href="/players/P____73840/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Erik Von Detten&lt;/a&gt;) and the more appropriate Michael (&lt;a href="/players/P___292865/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Robert Schwartzman&lt;/a&gt;), who also happens to be Lilly's brother. The Princess Diaries is the second film from &lt;a href="/players/P____33436/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Whitney Houston&lt;/a&gt;'s production shingle after the television version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>31</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>19</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>3</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:SpoutRating>3</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t45865xcch3.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/The_Princess_Diaries/195500/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Anne Hathaway Interview, Rachel Getting Married, Toronto 2008</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/17/2008 3:01:17 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Anna Hathaway has come a long way since The Princess Diaries, although speaking to her in person you sort of forget everything she’s done, from Brokeback Mountain to The Devil Wears Prada and now Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, because she still looks like that young girl thrust into the role of suddenly becoming a princess. Although she might look the same, she’s definitely matured in both her acting and how she handles a press room.
Read on to find out about her role as Kym in the movie, why she isn’t entirely satisfied with her previous acting roles, and what she’s doing next.

You were in Venice and now in Toronto, and the film was well received in both places. How was that?
I am not going to lie: two standing ovations at the world’s premier film festivals makes for a very good week [laughs]. I think, I need to stop celebrating with champagne now.
Was this the kind of role you’d been waiting on for awhile?
Meryl Streep said best––as she often does say best––that you do the best work you can from the material that is available. I am so thrilled that this part came my way. This is the kind of role, the reason why I became an actress. And of course I’ve loved the rest of my career and had so much fun working on these roles and had fun exploring other people, but this one, it is not “Oh, it is the one I have been waiting for,” but it is why I became an actor.
And you don’t get roles like this every single time and I don’t expect to get a role like this every single time, but I am happy that I did get it and that apparently I executed it well. And quite frankly, I am proud of my own work in this and I have never ever ever been able to say that to myself about another performance.
Are you happy with your performance in this?
I hope it doesn’t make me sound conceited: I am really satisfied. I worked really hard on this character for a year and to have my intentions represented on screen exactly as I imagined them is overwhelming and I have never had that before.

It is very heart wrenching to watch the movie and the performance, how much did you have to go into those emotions and how you were able really to let yourself be happy?
It is a funny thing, and I am going to sound like such a pretentious actor and please excuse me, but from the second I read the script, it is like Kym and I were locked together and I just knew who she was and how she felt. I didn’t have to torture myself to feel a certain way. It wasn’t about me, it was never about me, it was always about her and she made sense to me.  I think, the hardest thing is sometimes when the script tells you to cry and you don’t feel like the character or feel a certain way and you don’t feel like the character’s earned it.
Kym’s earned everything that she has and the good and the bad and the extremely extremely painful. And so, it always made sense to me that  and she is a dramatic person. She is an emotional person. She is just an incredibly well constructed character and as a result, she never felt like work. And like I said, I never had to beat myself up in order to get her to cry.
Kym seems so far away from the Anne Hathaway we’ve come to know…
I know, doesn’t she?
Is she that far away from where you are?
She is closer than anybody’s ever thought. [laughter]
Is this the first time in your life where you’re not trying to please other people?
Yeah, that is exactly where I am at in my life right now [laughs] actually.
What changed that?
I am sure it has a lot to do with my age and you know, just kind of… But, I have really… For the first time in my life, I am really comfortable in my skin. I think, I was tortured by the… Oh, my god I have just said that and bloggers are going to be like “Anne Hathaway was tortured…”   [laughter]
So, I’d like to retract that word and just say I was preoccupied with the fact that I was an actress, but I couldn’t call myself an actress to myself. I hadn’t done anything yet to earn that. And there I was out promoting it and people were complimenting me and I couldn’t accept it because it was just not true to me and I’ve all of a sudden now I have done work that I am proud off. I have done something that I believe in. I have done something that I worked really hard at and feel fulfilled by and feel satisfied by.
And there was a clear delineation in my life before I did this movie and afterwards and I felt like after I made it, I could relax because I am just like “at last, I did it, I did it, I did it,” who knows if I will ever be able to do it again and I am sure I will get freaked out about something else, but for this exact moment, I am really really happy.   And also about Kym as a character, Kym doesn’t have a filter, which I do, I was born with one, so I am never going to be able to change that.
But, Kym is really comfortable going out there and saying, “Look I am true to myself, so if you like me or you don’t, that’s your problem, but I am just me.” And I have never given myself the freedom to do that and I am kind of exploring that for the first time in my life and I am really liking it.   [laughter]
Did you try to remove that filter?
Well, yes, but I think that has more to do with me being an American than a celebrity. [laughter. boy she laughs a lot.]
Was it hard for you to in a case like The Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep got most of the limelight?
No, I’m a team player, what’s good for the movie is good for me and that is my attitude about it. I have long believed and still believe that you cannot cheat your character for the sake of giving a showy performance, which means if the emotional life in your character isn’t there to give a showy performance, you don’t just give one because that’s not going to work for the film. And even if that means sacrificing what you were just talking about, that’s what you have to do, that’s what you sign up for, that’s what it means to tell a story.
Do you mean that you weren’t satisfied with your previous films?
There were things I would have liked to change about all my performances, but Jonathan Demme managed to get something out of me that I was really proud of and wouldn’t change a thing about.
The character Kym smokes very heavily in the film. Did you take up smoking for it, or do you have a smoking habit yourself?
Reformed, reformed, reformed. I will say, it was tough to leave Kym behind when the movie was done and that was a habit that was tough to leave behind.
Where do you go from here?
I turned around and I made the same movie 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I made a movie called Bride Wars with Kate Hudson, which is going to be like the glossiest, most commercial thing you’ve ever seen.
But, it’s fun. I thought it was fun, because in it, I play one of the superlikable girls that I play, but she’s having an identity crisis about being a superlikable girl. [laughs] So, I thought it was kind of interesting.
Are you campaigning this fall? Are you going on the campaign trail?
I am, yeah. I’m going go with the Creative Coalition and then let them use me as they see fit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:01:17 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/17/2008 3:01:17 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>
Anna Hathaway has come a long way since The Princess Diaries, although speaking to her in person you sort of forget everything she’s done, from Brokeback Mountain to The Devil Wears Prada and now Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, because she still looks like that young girl thrust into the role of suddenly becoming a princess. Although she might look the same, she’s definitely matured in both her acting and how she handles a press room.
Read on to find out about her role as Kym in the movie, why she isn’t entirely satisfied with her previous acting roles, and what she’s doing next.

You were in Venice and now in Toronto, and the film was well received in both places. How was that?
I am not going to lie: two standing ovations at the world’s premier film festivals makes for a very good week [laughs]. I think, I need to stop celebrating with champagne now.
Was this the kind of role you’d been waiting on for awhile?
Meryl Streep said best––as she often does say best––that you do the best work you can from the material that is available. I am so thrilled that this part came my way. This is the kind of role, the reason why I became an actress. And of course I’ve loved the rest of my career and had so much fun working on these roles and had fun exploring other people, but this one, it is not “Oh, it is the one I have been waiting for,” but it is why I became an actor.
And you don’t get roles like this every single time and I don’t expect to get a role like this every single time, but I am happy that I did get it and that apparently I executed it well. And quite frankly, I am proud of my own work in this and I have never ever ever been able to say that to myself about another performance.
Are you happy with your performance in this?
I hope it doesn’t make me sound conceited: I am really satisfied. I worked really hard on this character for a year and to have my intentions represented on screen exactly as I imagined them is overwhelming and I have never had that before.

It is very heart wrenching to watch the movie and the performance, how much did you have to go into those emotions and how you were able really to let yourself be happy?
It is a funny thing, and I am going to sound like such a pretentious actor and please excuse me, but from the second I read the script, it is like Kym and I were locked together and I just knew who she was and how she felt. I didn’t have to torture myself to feel a certain way. It wasn’t about me, it was never about me, it was always about her and she made sense to me.  I think, the hardest thing is sometimes when the script tells you to cry and you don’t feel like the character or feel a certain way and you don’t feel like the character’s earned it.
Kym’s earned everything that she has and the good and the bad and the extremely extremely painful. And so, it always made sense to me that  and she is a dramatic person. She is an emotional person. She is just an incredibly well constructed character and as a result, she never felt like work. And like I said, I never had to beat myself up in order to get her to cry.
Kym seems so far away from the Anne Hathaway we’ve come to know…
I know, doesn’t she?
Is she that far away from where you are?
She is closer than anybody’s ever thought. [laughter]
Is this the first time in your life where you’re not trying to please other people?
Yeah, that is exactly where I am at in my life right now [laughs] actually.
What changed that?
I am sure it has a lot to do with my age and you know, just kind of… But, I have really… For the first time in my life, I am really comfortable in my skin. I think, I was tortured by the… Oh, my god I have just said that and bloggers are going to be like “Anne Hathaway was tortured…”   [laughter]
So, I’d like to retract that word and just say I was preoccupied with the fact that I was an actress, but I couldn’t call myself an actress to myself. I hadn’t done anything yet to earn that. And there I was out promoting it and people were complimenting me and I couldn’t accept it because it was just not true to me and I’ve all of a sudden now I have done work that I am proud off. I have done something that I believe in. I have done something that I worked really hard at and feel fulfilled by and feel satisfied by.
And there was a clear delineation in my life before I did this movie and afterwards and I felt like after I made it, I could relax because I am just like “at last, I did it, I did it, I did it,” who knows if I will ever be able to do it again and I am sure I will get freaked out about something else, but for this exact moment, I am really really happy.   And also about Kym as a character, Kym doesn’t have a filter, which I do, I was born with one, so I am never going to be able to change that.
But, Kym is really comfortable going out there and saying, “Look I am true to myself, so if you like me or you don’t, that’s your problem, but I am just me.” And I have never given myself the freedom to do that and I am kind of exploring that for the first time in my life and I am really liking it.   [laughter]
Did you try to remove that filter?
Well, yes, but I think that has more to do with me being an American than a celebrity. [laughter. boy she laughs a lot.]
Was it hard for you to in a case like The Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep got most of the limelight?
No, I’m a team player, what’s good for the movie is good for me and that is my attitude about it. I have long believed and still believe that you cannot cheat your character for the sake of giving a showy performance, which means if the emotional life in your character isn’t there to give a showy performance, you don’t just give one because that’s not going to work for the film. And even if that means sacrificing what you were just talking about, that’s what you have to do, that’s what you sign up for, that’s what it means to tell a story.
Do you mean that you weren’t satisfied with your previous films?
There were things I would have liked to change about all my performances, but Jonathan Demme managed to get something out of me that I was really proud of and wouldn’t change a thing about.
The character Kym smokes very heavily in the film. Did you take up smoking for it, or do you have a smoking habit yourself?
Reformed, reformed, reformed. I will say, it was tough to leave Kym behind when the movie was done and that was a habit that was tough to leave behind.
Where do you go from here?
I turned around and I made the same movie 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I made a movie called Bride Wars with Kate Hudson, which is going to be like the glossiest, most commercial thing you’ve ever seen.
But, it’s fun. I thought it was fun, because in it, I play one of the superlikable girls that I play, but she’s having an identity crisis about being a superlikable girl. [laughs] So, I thought it was kind of interesting.
Are you campaigning this fall? Are you going on the campaign trail?
I am, yeah. I’m going go with the Creative Coalition and then let them use me as they see fit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: The Bad Seed Princess Messengers Want to Live in Madison County</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2008/3/15/26247.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t45865xcch3.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/17539/default.aspx'>dibot</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/15/2008 1:59:41 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Talk about behind  The Bad Seed focuses on a seemingly perfect little girl, blond braids, sweet smile. But when a schoolmate has a tragic accident on a picnic, her mother starts to suspect evil beneath the little girl&#39;s sweetness. This is an old school suspense movie. The characters are introduced and given plenty of time to impress us (sometimes the wrong way like the grating voice of the land lady). Though I wanted the length to be a bit shorter, this film has to be seen for the double whammy of the ending. Be sure to watch the credits. I left this film laughing in disbelief as well as feeling sort of dirty inside.  The Messengers starts out as a tight little PG-13 horror movie. The family moves from the city to an isolated farm house in order to escape some trouble their teenaged daughter caused. Kristen Stewart (&quot;Jumper&quot;) stars and pulls off the tortured teen with enough aplomb to make this cliched character seem to have depth. The ghosts are creepy, especially with the scuttling. Freaks me out. And then there&#39;s the psycho-killer twist. That&#39;s right, psycho-killers and ghosts. And then the movie ends. Just kind of bam! into a neat implausible little ball. Alas.  The Princess Diaries was cute and fun. Julie Andrews (&quot;Enchanted&quot;) really is royalty. I don&#39;t know what else to say about this story of a dorky girl who transforms into a princess. If I were 12, I would love it.  I Want to Live! took me by surprise. Susan Hayward (&quot;The Revengers&quot;) stars as a party girl who does some time. Then she settles down to try and have a family. But then her luck turns again and she ends up on trial for murder, facing the death penalty. Sometimes Hayward&#39;s character is super annoying. However, I found myself falling deeper and deeper into her story. Based on an actual trial, the movie really comes into it&#39;s own during the jail scenes. Hayward is tough and tragic. I especially loved the use of only diegetic sound during the final sequences. It really brought the intensity home. Hayward won the Oscar for this film.  The Bridges of Madison County is supposed to be one of the most romantic stories ever. I&#39;m not sold on that assessment, but it has its moments. Meryl Streep (&quot;Lions for Lambs&quot;) stars as a slightly bored housewife who meets a photographer, Clint Eastwood (&quot;Million Dollar Baby&quot;), while her family is out of town. They then spend a beautiful four days together. Streep and Eastwood are great (of course), but their story is told in flashback. The present day focus is on Steep&#39;s adult children who learn of the affair after her death. They are the worst actors ever, yanking us right out of the story.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:59:41 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>dibot</spout:postby><spout:postto>dibot Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>3/15/2008 1:59:41 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Talk about behind  The Bad Seed focuses on a seemingly perfect little girl, blond braids, sweet smile. But when a schoolmate has a tragic accident on a picnic, her mother starts to suspect evil beneath the little girl&amp;#39;s sweetness. This is an old school suspense movie. The characters are introduced and given plenty of time to impress us (sometimes the wrong way like the grating voice of the land lady). Though I wanted the length to be a bit shorter, this film has to be seen for the double whammy of the ending. Be sure to watch the credits. I left this film laughing in disbelief as well as feeling sort of dirty inside.  The Messengers starts out as a tight little PG-13 horror movie. The family moves from the city to an isolated farm house in order to escape some trouble their teenaged daughter caused. Kristen Stewart (&amp;quot;Jumper&amp;quot;) stars and pulls off the tortured teen with enough aplomb to make this cliched character seem to have depth. The ghosts are creepy, especially with the scuttling. Freaks me out. And then there&amp;#39;s the psycho-killer twist. That&amp;#39;s right, psycho-killers and ghosts. And then the movie ends. Just kind of bam! into a neat implausible little ball. Alas.  The Princess Diaries was cute and fun. Julie Andrews (&amp;quot;Enchanted&amp;quot;) really is royalty. I don&amp;#39;t know what else to say about this story of a dorky girl who transforms into a princess. If I were 12, I would love it.  I Want to Live! took me by surprise. Susan Hayward (&amp;quot;The Revengers&amp;quot;) stars as a party girl who does some time. Then she settles down to try and have a family. But then her luck turns again and she ends up on trial for murder, facing the death penalty. Sometimes Hayward&amp;#39;s character is super annoying. However, I found myself falling deeper and deeper into her story. Based on an actual trial, the movie really comes into it&amp;#39;s own during the jail scenes. Hayward is tough and tragic. I especially loved the use of only diegetic sound during the final sequences. It really brought the intensity home. Hayward won the Oscar for this film.  The Bridges of Madison County is supposed to be one of the most romantic stories ever. I&amp;#39;m not sold on that assessment, but it has its moments. Meryl Streep (&amp;quot;Lions for Lambs&amp;quot;) stars as a slightly bored housewife who meets a photographer, Clint Eastwood (&amp;quot;Million Dollar Baby&amp;quot;), while her family is out of town. They then spend a beautiful four days together. Streep and Eastwood are great (of course), but their story is told in flashback. The present day focus is on Steep&amp;#39;s adult children who learn of the affair after her death. They are the worst actors ever, yanking us right out of the story.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: The Princess Diaries</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/3/2/5921.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t45865xcch3.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/7741/default.aspx'>MovieBabe</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/2/2007 12:46:00 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Despite its misfit-turned-princess premise, The Princess Diaries isn&#39;t just another babe-behind-the-glasses movie. Fifteen-year-old Mia (Anne Hathaway), who lives in a funky San Francisco apartment with her artist mom (Caroline Goodall), is a believable candidate for a fairy-tale ugly-duckling transformation. Her problem isn&#39;t nerdiness, exactly -- though her mound of frizzy hair and not-yet-grown-into features are unlike those of her classmates and therefore seen as unattractive. And she doesn&#39;t lack for brains or a sense of humor, either. What plagues Mia is the curse of invisibility: Teachers don&#39;t remember her name, people sit on her, and that cute boy with the sun streaks in his hair, well, he just about runs her over on the way to class. Pleasant and funny around adults and her best nerd friend, Lilly (stock weird girl Heather Matarazzo of Welcome to the Dollhouse), Mia nonetheless makes herself sick with anxiety when she has to speak in front of a group and prefers not to call any attention to herself during the school day. Then her absentee father dies, and her grandmother (Julie Andrews, in her first Disney feature since Mary Poppins) lets her in on a family secret: Her dad was the crown prince of Genovia, and Mia is next in line for the throne. She&#39;s horrified at the thought of being thrust into a spotlight -- and Queen Grandma is equally appalled at her sloppy American mannerisms -- but they set out to polish Mia into a presentable royal in time for an upcoming state dinner, at which the teenager will have to announce whether she&#39;s going to accept sovereignty. At two hours, the movie is a little long for a kids&#39; flick, but Andrews&#39; glowing presence and Hathaway&#39;s letter-perfect performance as the cool, pretty girl who hasn&#39;t yet discovered that she&#39;s either make the few nonessential scenes (such as an out-of-the-blue seductive dance number between the queen and her bodyguard) and the occasionally groan-inducing dialogue ("I just consider myself royally flushed," says a rejected paramour) forgivable. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:46:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>MovieBabe</spout:postby><spout:postto>MovieBabe Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>3/2/2007 12:46:00 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Despite its misfit-turned-princess premise, The Princess Diaries isn&amp;#39;t just another babe-behind-the-glasses movie. Fifteen-year-old Mia (Anne Hathaway), who lives in a funky San Francisco apartment with her artist mom (Caroline Goodall), is a believable candidate for a fairy-tale ugly-duckling transformation. Her problem isn&amp;#39;t nerdiness, exactly -- though her mound of frizzy hair and not-yet-grown-into features are unlike those of her classmates and therefore seen as unattractive. And she doesn&amp;#39;t lack for brains or a sense of humor, either. What plagues Mia is the curse of invisibility: Teachers don&amp;#39;t remember her name, people sit on her, and that cute boy with the sun streaks in his hair, well, he just about runs her over on the way to class. Pleasant and funny around adults and her best nerd friend, Lilly (stock weird girl Heather Matarazzo of Welcome to the Dollhouse), Mia nonetheless makes herself sick with anxiety when she has to speak in front of a group and prefers not to call any attention to herself during the school day. Then her absentee father dies, and her grandmother (Julie Andrews, in her first Disney feature since Mary Poppins) lets her in on a family secret: Her dad was the crown prince of Genovia, and Mia is next in line for the throne. She&amp;#39;s horrified at the thought of being thrust into a spotlight -- and Queen Grandma is equally appalled at her sloppy American mannerisms -- but they set out to polish Mia into a presentable royal in time for an upcoming state dinner, at which the teenager will have to announce whether she&amp;#39;s going to accept sovereignty. At two hours, the movie is a little long for a kids&amp;#39; flick, but Andrews&amp;#39; glowing presence and Hathaway&amp;#39;s letter-perfect performance as the cool, pretty girl who hasn&amp;#39;t yet discovered that she&amp;#39;s either make the few nonessential scenes (such as an out-of-the-blue seductive dance number between the queen and her bodyguard) and the occasionally groan-inducing dialogue ("I just consider myself royally flushed," says a rejected paramour) forgivable. </spout:body></item>
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