A good-hearted Cinderella name Sam (Hilary Duff) is stuck in the fairy-tale-gone-wrong atmosphere of modern-day Los Angeles. She had an Enslaved by her evil BOTOX-junky step-mom (a hilarious Jennifer Coolidge). Sam is forced to scrub floors at her late father's diner, thus earning the eternal disdain of the snooty popular kids in school. Luckily, she has a friend in artsy nerd Carter (Dan Byrd), and a romance message with some poetic schoolmate. she's never met. She has a fairy godmother in the sweet diner manager (Regina King), who helps Sam get decked out and disguised for the Halloween dance. At the dance, she discovers her prince is one of the popular kids, Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray).

Happily ever after seems like a long shot, though, because Austin is burdened by pressures at school and at home, and Sam can't shake her "diner girl" inferiority complex. This fairy tale comes with plenty of wit, style, and heart. Byrd makes a winning and somewhat cool nerd, Murray shows princely posture as the tortured poet-quarterback, and Duff firmly establishes herself as a first-rate young actress with luminous major-league screen presence.

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