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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	The Princess Diaries  Release Date - August 3, 2001 Nationwide  Distributor - Walt Disney Pictures  Duration - 110 Mins  Type - Comedy.  Writer : Gina Wendkos.  Producer : Garry Marshall.  Director : Garry Marshall.  Starring : Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Goodall.  Synopsis When a 16-year-old girl living in New York City learns that there is royal blood in her family and that she is actually the princess of a small country in Europe, she quickly realizes that her glamorous new title also carries a lot of new responsibility. Her Grandmother (Julie Andrews) is charged with the job of teaching this young princess how to act like one.  Critic Reviews Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) lives in a fabulous converted firehouse south of Market with her kooky single mother (Caroline Goodall, playing a straight version of Illeana Douglas' parodied art instructor from Ghost World). But despite the cool digs, Mia feels like a walking blur at her private school. Hidden behind thick glasses, frizzy hair, and scabby knees — not that hidden, really; it's pretty clear that Mia's a knockout just waiting for her movie makeover montage — she struggles to fit in, with only best pal Lily (Matarazzo) for comfort. "My expectation in life is to be invisible," Mia says with a sigh. Enter Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews), Mia's estranged grandmother, who arrives to tell her that she is the heir apparent to the throne in Genovia, the fictional equivalent of Luxembourg or Liechtenstein. Faster than you can say Pygmalion, Mia undergoes a tip-to-toe glamorization, with Andrews acting as her Henry Higgins (reversing her famous stage role in My Fair Lady) and Marshall regular Hector Elizondo as her Colonel Pickering. Shuttled to school in a limo and sporting a straight coif, Mia has all her classmates' attention once they get wind of her royal genes. Especially interested is the Backstreet Boy clone that she's sweet on (Erik Von Detten) — much to the chagrin of Lily's indie rocker-mechanic brother, Michael (Robert Schwartzman, brother of Jason Schwartzman). It's nice that Schwartzman, with his Noel Gallagher shag and hipster attitude, gets to be Mia's soul mate — an offbeat touch that suggests that Marshall's seen the smart geek-chic comedy Rushmore (which starred the elder Schwartzman). Marshall also steals from the Wes Anderson coming-of-ager's soundtrack: The '60s harmonies of Chad & Jeremy's "A Summer Song" are tossed into the mix with teeny-boppers like BB Mak, Pink, and, of course, Mandy Moore. Of course, Diaries is really just Pretty Woman for pre-teens (complete with an identical slapstick fancy dinner). It's most memorable in that it introduces the world to Hathaway — who, after a shaky start, makes for a lovely comic ingénue — and (more interestingly) showcases the staying power of Julie Andrews. Taking her young charge in hand, the living legend plays her right-as-rain, tea-sipping screen persona to the hilt. The preview audience I saw the film with lapped it up like a spoonful of sugar.   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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