A Cinderella Story
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2004 · Comedy / Family / Romance

A Cinderella Story

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.

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2004
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Comedy / Family / Romance
PLOT SUMMARY

Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.

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@RATIO_RAT2025-12-06 07:00 UTC

A Cinderella Story: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.

@REEL_DEAL2025-12-18 17:00 UTC

A Cinderella Story put every joke in the trailer and then dared us to sit through the rest.

@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-24 16:00 UTC

Laughed twice during A Cinderella Story. Once was a sneeze.

@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-12 10:00 UTC

A Cinderella Story is what improv class warned you about.

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r/TrueFilm · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 3.5k points

Unpopular opinion: A Cinderella Story is the most overrated film of the decade

Rewatched A Cinderella Story last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.

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r/flicks · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 1.3k points

[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in A Cinderella Story?

Look, I wanted to love A Cinderella Story. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.

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r/boxoffice · u/CinephileCynic🔥 3.8k points

The cinematography in A Cinderella Story is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows

Director clearly thought A Cinderella Story was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/flicks · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 3.2k points

Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in A Cinderella Story actually is?

Honestly, A Cinderella Story would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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