The Princess Diaries is a 2001 comedy film produced by singer and actress Whitney Houston and directed by Garry Marshall. It is based 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 Kingdom of Genovia, ruled by her grandmother Queen Dowager Clarisse Renaldi, who is portrayed by Julie Andrews. It also stars Heather Matarazzo as Mia's best friend Lilly Moscovitz, Héctor Elizondo as Joseph, the Queen's Head of Security, and Robert Schwartzman as Lilly's brother Michael,... who has a crush on Mia. It was released to North American theatres on August 3, 2001 and peaked at number three in the box office. The Princess Diaries was a commercial success, grossing $165,335,153 worldwide. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, the film's sequel, was released in August 2004. Mia Thermopolis is a fifteen-year-old tenth grade private school student who lives with her mother Helen Thermopolis and her cat, Fat Louie, in a renovated San Francisco firehouse. Mia is an average, plain-looking student, but extremely unpopular.
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| Release date: | July 29, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Garry Marshall |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Debra Martin Chase, Whitney Houston, Mario Iscovich |
| Editor: | Bruce Green |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Cinematography: | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
| Screenplay by: | Gina Wendkos |
| Estimated budget: | $26,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Princess Diaries |
| Genre: | Comedy |