Unlike other adaptations, "A Cinderella Story" doesn't end with a wedding - instead, the happy couple ends up going to college together. Like other versions, Austin goes on a hunt to find his "Cinderella" by using the item she left behind. Sam ends up having a romantic time with Austin at the dance, but when she has to rush off to make it back to the diner by midnight, she drops her cell phone instead of a glass slipper. In true fairy-godmother fashion, Rhonda lends Sam her old wedding gown to help the high-schooler prepare for the homecoming masquerade dance (which replaces the ball seen in previous movies). In terms of a fairy godmother, "A Cinderella Story" cuts out the magic and instead features Sam's coworker, Rhonda, in this somewhat motherly role. Throughout the movie, Sam frequently confides in an online pen pal, who later turns out to be Austin Ames, a popular football player who ends up being her "prince" in the film. Notably, she's also a straight-A student who is determined to attend college, which helps viewers develop a sense of her goals and intelligence.Īn added layer to this adaptation is that Sam has a secret connection to her "Prince Charming" long before they meet on the dance floor.
Instead of working as a maid or servant in her stepmother's house, Sam works as a waitress in a diner, which once belonged to her father but now belongs to her stepother, so she can save money for college. Starring Hilary Duff as the main character, Sam Montgomery, "A Cinderella Story" takes common themes from the 1950 animated film but changes many details to make the story more modern. Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray starred in this more modern version of the film. When Ella later hears rumors that the prince wants to marry a strange Egyptian princess from the party, she doesn't realize they are actually talking about her. Unlike many other versions of "Cinderella" where the lead has long, blonde hair, Ella has dark, short hair and her appearance is actually an important plot point.īecause of her appearance, the townspeople at the ball mistake her as being an Egyptian princess. Toquet vanishes into thin air, revealing that she was magical all along. Later in the movie, the carriage crashes and turns into a pumpkin and Mrs. Toquet brings Ella a beautiful dress and glass slippers and arranges a carriage as transportation to the ball, but Ella doesn't attribute these things to magic. Tuoquet, whose magic is mostly hidden and low-key. She doesn't first meet him at the big ball, since Ella and the prince actually met when they were children.Īnd although Ella does lose a glass slipper as expected, in this version of "Cinderella," the fairy godmother comes in the form of an eccentric older friend, Mrs. Unlike many other versions of the story, in this film Ella has a deep connection with the prince from the very start.
In"The Glass Slipper," Cinderella, whose name is Ella in the film, is an antisocial orphan who is a servant to her stepmother and stepsisters. This version also hides its magical elements until the end of the movie.
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