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Sam Montgomery lives in the San Fernando Valley with her father Hal, who owns a diner. His second wife, Fiona, has two daughters, Brianna and Gabriella. Hal is killed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and Fiona inherits everything. Years later, Sam is a high school student who works at the diner to save money for Princeton. Cheerleader Shelby and the popular crowd make her life hard. Her closest confidant is Nomad, an online pen pal who also wants to study at Princeton; he asks her to meet him at the school's Halloween dance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Cinderella Story (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Clifford Werber conceived a modernized adaptation of the Cinderella story because he saw it as "the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy" with "an underlying message of empowerment."
- A Cinderella Story was followed by five direct-to-video films, each a separate modern-day Cinderella story with no characters from the first film and with musical, dance and holiday event themes.
