A Cinderella Story
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After her father dies, Sam's stepmother and stepsisters continually exploit her. She finds respite in an online pen pal, Nomad, and decides to meet him at a school dance.
Seventeen-year-old Samantha "Sam" Montgomery is a waitress at a diner in the San Fernando Valley run by her stepmother, the vain and greedy Fiona.
Fiona received ownership of the diner as well as the family inheritance after Sam's widowed father, Hal, died in the Northridge earthquake eight years prior and seemingly left no will. The valley is amidst an extreme drought.
A Cinderella Story is an American teen romantic comedy film directed by Mark Rosman, written by Leigh Dunlap and starring Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge, and Regina King.
A modernization of the classic Cinderella folklore, the film's plot revolves around two internet pen pals who plan to meet in person at their high school's Halloween dance.