Then to finish off the night with watching the new release of A Cinderella Story: Starstruck while they enjoy their treat from the farm. My kids love cookies and the idea of painting them was even better. Such a cute idea of painting sugar cookies that were baked on the farm. ![]() Other featured actors include April Telek ( Chris Watts: Confession of a Killer ) as the cruel stepmother and Lillian Doucet-Roche ( A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish ) and Richard Harmon ( The 100 ) as the devious step-siblings, Saffron and Kale.Ī Cinderella Story: Starstruck is the sixth movie to follow the Cinderella trope, coming after the last two installments A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish starring Laura Marano and A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits starring Sofia Carson. Other titles include A Cinderella Story starring Hilary Duffand Chad Michael Murray, Another Cinderella Story starring Selena Gomez and Drew Seeley, and A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song starring Lucy Hale. Dirt Under My Nails: The Making of A Cinderella Story: Starstruck. The only question is, can she keep this secret? Especially from her evil stepmom and step-siblings? Warner Bros. Finley messes up her audition and ends up disguising herself as cowboy “Huck,” confidently landing the role. But of course, not all things go as planned. To her luck, a Hollywood crew arrives in her town and she’s determined to land a role in the production, especially to get the attention of the handsome star, Jackson Stone ( Behling). ![]() Directors Michelle Johnston Starring Bailee Madison, Michael Evans Behling, April Telek Genres Kids Subtitles English. Finley is determined to land a role in a Hollywood production, but a botched audition forces her to disguise herself as a cowboy. This new installment of the Cinderella Story series takes place in small-town Dreary, Idaho, and follows Finley Tremaine ( Madison) as she longs to spread her wings and fly as an aspiring performer. A Cinderella Story: Starstruck (47) 5.5 1 h. Optional.Bailee Madison is getting her Cinderella moment but it looks like she’ll be swapping the glass slippers for some cowgirl boots.Ī Cinderella Story: Starstruck stars Madison and All American ’s Michael Evans Behling and will be released on digital on June 29 and on DVD on July 13. When a Hollywood film crew arrives in her sleepy town. Hey, that's a good title: A Cinderella Story: Run For Your Lives. Have Warners call my agent. Finley Tremaine, a small town farm girl, longs to spread her wings and soar as an aspiring performer. On the plus side, songs are pleasant in an early-Taylor-Swift kind of way, and amusingly caustic actor Harmon appears to have attended the Paul Lynde School of Dramatic Arts for his schtick.ĭue to proven appeal, the title will find passing interest in the J shelves among the intended school-ager audience. It seems unkind to A Cinderella Story: Starstruck to be nitpicky about the timeless premise (the essential Cinderella tale has been traced all the way back to ancient Egypt), but the material illustrates what critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel used to call the "idiot plot," a scenario that could never, ever function unless every single character were an absolute idiot. Everybody is transfixed by `Huck,' especially Jackson-but also Savannah, who is delighted to play a love scene with `him.' Maybe if the director were John Waters (instead of longtime series choreographer Michelle Johnston) there would have been a more memorable payoff to that part. Finley's show-business dreams seem to be coming true when the farm gets utilized as the shooting location for a new musicalization of the Billy the Kid saga, starring Hollywood hunk Jackson Stone (Michael Evans Behling).īut, in a complication that makes Hannah Montana look like Brokeback Mountain, Finley finds she can only get on set.in male drag, with unconvincing mustache and goatee, as an actor named Huck Finn. She plays Finley, an Idaho farm girl reduced to sleeping in the barn because her daddy's dead and the ancestral homestead is taken over by the nasty stepmom (April Telek), vapid stepsister Savannah (Lilian Doucet-Roche), and snarky stepbrother Kale (Richard Harmon). A Cinderella Story: Starstruck gives the material a country-and-western twang with newcomer Bailee Madison now in the lead. None were true sequels, just further do-overs of the same old plot, carving out a "brand" with Disney-Channel young actresses (Hillary Duff, Selena Gomez, Lucy Hale) taking turns as heroines. Warner's unremarkable 2004 theatrical release, a teen modernization of the Cinderella plot that eschewed all magical and supernatural stuff, was followed by direct-to-video stepsisters Another Cinderella Story, A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish, A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits, etc., etc. If nothing else, the original A Cinderella Story illustrates movie marketing and "franchise" creation.
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