Ever After: A Cinderella Story is a 1998 film inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella, directed by Andy Tennant and starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston and Dougray Scott. The screenplay is written by Tennant, Susannah Grant, and Rick Parks. The original music score is composed by George Fenton. The film's closing theme song "Put Your Arms Around Me" is performed by the rock band Texas. The usual pantomime and comic/supernatural elements are removed and the story is instead treated as historical fiction, set in Renaissance-era France. It is often seen as a modern, post-feminism... interpretation of the Cinderella myth. In the early 19th century, the Grande Dame of France, an elderly aristocrat, summons the Brothers Grimm to tell them the real story of the little cinder girl. She shows them a portrait of a young woman, named Danielle De Barbarac, and a glass slipper, and begins her tale. Danielle lives with her widowed father Auguste, who shares with her a love of books and progressive ideas. He brings home a new wife, the haughty Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent, who has two daughters about Danielle's age, Marguerite and Jacqueline.
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| Release date: | July 29, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Andy Tennant |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mireille Soria, Tracey Trench |
| Editor: | Roger Bondelli |
| Music by: | George Fenton |
| Cinematography: | Andrew Dunn |
| Screenplay by: | Andy Tennant, Rick Parks |
| Estimated budget: | $26,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Fantasy |