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''Ever After: A Cinderella Story'' is a 1998 film adaptation of the classic "[[Cinderella (
The story begins when [[The Brothers Grimm (Creator)|The Brothers Grimm]] are invited to the home of a French noblewoman who tells them how much she enjoyed their story of [[Cinderella (
Danielle de Barbarac ([[Drew Barrymore]]) is the beloved only child of the widowed Auguste de Barbarac and his late wife, Nicole de Lancret. When she is eight years old, he remarries the Baroness [[Wicked Stepmother|Rodmilla de Ghent]] (portrayed by [[Anjelica Huston]]), and brings her home along with her two daughters, [[Royal Brat|spoiled and cruel Marguerite]] and [[Shrinking Violet|gentle but weak-willed Jacqueline]]. Shortly thereafter, he dies, leaving Danielle to the care of her stepmother, who already resents the love that he displays to his daughter, and the estate's three devoted servants - the housemaids, Paulette and Louise, and the retainer, Louise's husband Maurice.
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The movie skips ahead ten years, to when Danielle is eighteen. Their estate has fallen onto hard times and things keep "disappearing," to the anger of the Baroness. Danielle has, of course, become a virtual house slave to the family, but takes comfort in the familial love she shares with the servants and the kindness she receives from Jacqueline. One morning, she is gathering apples in the estate's orchard when she spies someone stealing the horse of her late father. Enraged, she chucks apples at him, ultimately causing him to fall. It turns out to be the Crown Prince of France, running away from a father who wants to [[Arranged Marriage|marry him off]]. To buy her silence, he gives her a great amount of gold.
Danielle and the Prince meet again when Danielle, disguised as a courtier and using her mother's name, goes to the castle to rescue Maurice, whom the Baroness had sold into slavery to pay off some of her debt. The Prince is intrigued by "Nicole's" beliefs and courage, and asks to meet her again. A [[Incredibly Lame Pun|courtship]] ensues, in which Danielle keeps trying to tell Henry that she is really not a countess and the Baroness gets increasingly suspicious of Danielle's odd appearances and disappearances. The King and Queen, desperate to marry their son off, are delighted that he has found a girl... but are keen to meet her, something Danielle wishes to avoid. Meanwhile, [[Leonardo
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* [[Happily Ever After]]: Duh.
* [[Happily Married]]: King Francis and Queen Marie (despite their periodic snarkiness with each other), Maurice and Louise, and Danielle and Henry clearly establish that they're going to be this in the first few months of their marriage that we see. It's implied that Jacqueline and Laurent will end up this as well.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: If this movie is to be believed, Cinderella's fairy godmother was really [[Leonardo
** Who also counts as a [[Cool Old Guy]].
* [[Historical Fiction]]: The Cinderella story minus the magical elements.
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* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Utterly averted with Henry, who is fascinated by the way "Nicole" climbs trees, swims alone, and is strong enough to hoist ''him'' over her shoulders.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Danielle is an orphan.
* [[Perverted Sniffing]]: Monsieur le Peu a [[Stalker
* [[Pet the Dog]]: After Danielle is whipped for punching Marguerite in the face, Jacqueline nurses the lash-marks on her back, adding that Marguerite should never have said what she did about Danielle's mother.
* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Rodmilla does one of these to Auguste as he lies dying of a heart attack, but it's more selfish than loving, since she's wailing that he "cannot leave [her] here" while basically ignoring his heartbroken young daughter kneeling beside him, and proceeds to be horrible to her for the next ten years.
* [[The Queen's Latin]]: Although they are in Renaissance ''France'', everyone (including the ''Italian'' Da Vinci) speaks with a British accent. Barrymore's is particularly jarring.
* [[Rebel Prince]]: Henry isn't really keen to assume his princely duties, and first meets Danielle when he's running away from home. At first, he's rebellious out of [[Royal Brat|snobbish boredom]], but after meeting with Danielle a few times, his rebelliousness grows to be for the good of his kingdom's people.
* [[Renaissance Man]]: The original Renaissance man, ''[[Leonardo
* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]: The King and Queen, Prince Henry, and newly-titled Princess Danielle are crowned and in full court dress for the public humiliation of Rodmilla and Marguerite.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Rodmilla and Marguerite. Henry may also count as a male example. They all undergo a [[Break the Haughty]] process by the end.
* [[Royal Brat]]: Marguerite, the older daughter, is an excellent version, even throwing tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants. Thankfully, her younger sister is more sympathetic and is a sort of [[Snark Knight]].
** Prince Henry is a male version, to some extent. After he gets taken down a peg with an AWESOME speech from [[Leonardo
* [[Say My Name]]: Danielle, in a heartwarming scene where Prince Henry (in apologizing for being a [[Jerkass]]) spontaneously calls Danielle by her real name (instead of Nicole, her mother's name, which he has been using up this point). She begs him to repeat it -- not the apology, but the part where he says her name.
** There's also the bit where he tells her to call him Henry instead of "Your Highness" (which is how he demanded she refer to him as when he discovered she was actually a commoner).
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'''Henry:''' "Really! Well then by all means, enlighten us."<br />
'''Danielle:''' "If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" }}
* [[Stalker
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The historically homosexual [[Leonardo
* [[A Taste of the Lash]]: Marguerite takes Danielle's mother's clothes and [[Alpha Bitch|taunts Danielle about said mother being dead]]. Danielle punches her. In the end, her father's favorite book is thrown into the fire and Rodmilla whips her (we don't see the actual event, just a rather disturbing image of a bleeding back). Jacqueline offers medical treatment and support.
* [[Throw the Dog
* [[Timeshifted Actor]]: Danielle, Marguerite, Jacqueline, and Danielle's friend Gustave are played by different actors before the time skip. Justified because the characters were children before the [[Time Skip]] and adults after.
* [[Time Skip]]: We don't see anything between the father's death and Danielle's eighteenth year, a jump of ten years.
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{{quote| "No one will be looking at your feet."}}
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]
* [[What Happened to
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Leonardo's speech to Henry after he rejects Danielle is pretty epic.
{{quote| '''Prince Henry:''' [[Meaningful Echo|"I have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations."]]<br />
'''[[Leonardo
** May also count as a [[Precision F-Strike]] - although the actual f-bomb is not dropped, this is the only real instance of profanity in the movie, and leaves both Henry and the audience somewhat stunned.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]
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