The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries is a 2001 comedy film directed by Garry Marshall. It is bad on Meg Cabot's 2000 novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis, a teenager who discovers that she is the heir to the throne of the fictional Genovia, ruled by her grandmother, Queen dowager Claris Renaldi, who is portrayed by Julie Andrews. It also stars Heather Matarazzo匈牙利政府>仿真花卉 as Mia's best friend Lilly Moscovitz, Héctor Elizondo as Renaldi's head of curity, and Robert Schwartzman as Lilly's brother, who has a crush on Mia. The film was produced by singer and actress Whitney Houston.
Cast
∙ Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis
∙ Julie Andrews as Queen Claris Renaldi
∙ Héctor Elizondo as Joe
∙ Heather Matarazzo as Lilly Moscovitz
∙ Mandy Moore as Lana Thomas
∙ Caroline Goodall as Helen Thermopolis
∙ Robert Schwartzman as Michael Moscovitz
∙ Erik von Detten as Josh Bryant
∙ Sean O'Bryan as Patrick O'Connell
∙ Sandra Oh as Vice Principal Gupta
∙ Kathleen Marshall as Charlotte
Plot
Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is a fifteen-year-old tenth grade private school student who lives with her mother Helen Thermopolis (酿香菇Caroline Goodall) and her cat, Fat Louie, in a renovated 咸鱼蒸肉饼San Francisco firehou. Her father, Philippe Renaldi (who had divorced h
er mother years ago but still kept in touch with Mia) died two months earlier in a car crash. Although Mia is an average student, she is very unpopular, but has two good friends: Lilly Moscovitz (Heather Matarazzo) and Lilly's brother Michael Moscovitz (Robert Schwartzman椰汁的功效与作用).
Shortly before Mia's sixteenth birthday, she learns her paternal grandmother is visiting from Genovia, a small European country. Mia meets her grandmother, Claris Renaldi (Julie Andrews), at the Genovian consulate for the first time in her life. Claris explains that the reason she wanted to e her was becau of a "life-changing" problem. Mia learns that her father was the crown prince of Genovia and, due to his death, she is the now next in line and the only heir to the Genovian throne. She is shocked to learn that she is a princess and at first rejects the whole idea.
Mia's mother and grandmother convince her to attend "princess lessons" in preparation for her introduction to the Genovian government at the upcoming State Dinner, under supervision from her new bodyguard, the head of Genovian curity, Joph "Joe" (Hécto
r Elizondo). To look more prentable to the Genobian government, Mia receives a makeover from Italian hairdresr Paolo (Larry Miller). All of this is to be kept cret until Genovia's Independence Day Ball to avoid a media frenzy.
However, the San Francisco Chronicle learns that Mia is the Genovian crown princess after Paolo breaks his confidentiality agreement. Although thoroughly annoyed, Claris press onward and prepares for the State Dinner. Mia attends and is publicly humiliated via her klutziness.
The day after the State Dinner, Mia agrees to appear on Lilly's public-access television program Shut Up and Listen and to watch Michael's band perform at a venue that Saturday night. Mia is almost 16 so she is almost able to drive a car, (her "baby", a vintage 菖蒲草Ford Mustang.) She takes a test drive with her grandmother and they go to an arcade. Mia asks her grandmother if her father wanted to be prince, to which she replies yes, but adds that he thought of abdicating only once when he fell in love with Mia's mother. However, he realized his love for his country was greater.
While driving back to the Genovian consulate, Mia's car fails on a hill and rams into a trolley loaded with people. No one is hurt, but the police are called. To save Mia a trip to the police station (she was driving without a licen), Claris names the police man and trolley master to the Genovian Order of the Ro (a fictional honor made up on the spot). The men are so flattered that Claris and Mia are given a ride back to the consulate in a police car.
Josh, a cute boy on whom Mia has a crush, asks Mia to go with him to the school's annual beach party. She excitedly agrees. Michael and Lilly are both hurt when Mia blows them off for the popular kids. Mia's mother wily points out Josh never liked her before all this princess business. Mia ignores this obrvation.
The beach party goes well at first, but spirals out of control when the media learns of Mia's prence. Josh us her to get his fifteen minutes of fame by publicly kissing Mia and three jealous popular girls embarrass Mia in front of the paparazzi, resulting in photos of her in only a towel.
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The unflattering photos wind up on tabloid covers and this displeas Claris. Then, Claris tells Mia that she could still go to the ball and invite her friends, except Josh. Joe, however, reminds Claris that although Mia is a princess, she is still a teenager and Claris's granddaughter. To reconstruct her friendships with Lilly and Michael, Mia apologizes and invites them to the Genovian Independence Day Ball, where she must reveal whether or not she wants to accept her duties as a princess.
Upon learning she must personally and publicly renounce her throne, the terrified Mia plans to run away. She is stopped when finds a sixteenth birthday gift (the titular diary) and a letter from her father written before his death. Touched by his words, she changes her mind and makes her way to the ball. Her car breaks down on the way, but she is saved by Joe who arrives with a limo (having suspected her runaway plans).
