Ever After - A Cinderella Story
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A Cinderella for a New Generation
Ever After is a retelling of the Cinderella story with a bit of a twist. This 16th Century Cinderella a.k.a. Danielle, played by Drew Barrymore is beautiful as well as intelligent.
This new Cinderella is a victim of ill-fated circumstances. Somehow she still manages, despite the odds, to rise above it all, change her fate and and her destiny and soar.
In Danielle, director Andy Tennan created a positive role model for today's young girls and women...a woman who is beautiful, adventurous, strong, smart and most of all a survivor.
She is a wonderful role model to share with my daughters.
Why I Love Ever After
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story [Blu-ray]
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I like Danielle because she is a new and improved Cinderella. This Cinderella speaks her mind. She is a woman not likely to stay at home and wait for her prince to come and rescue her. She is likely to go and figure out a way to solve her problems without him and rescue herself.
As an empowered woman, Danielle is a much better role positive model for today's young girls.
Ever After is a movie that I have shared with my young daughters to teach them how to you can be a strong 'princess.'
Ever After Movie Trailer
What do you think about Ever After?
Ever After is the one of the best movies ever.
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byBien sur, Ever After is the best.
Angel in Disguise says:
I have seen this film over and over again. Each time I watch it, I never help but get pretty emotional in some scenes. This movie has never failed to make me emotional... in a good way. It is a piece of classic film that provokes women empowerment.
Posted January 25, 2012
jules says:
ever after well cast with humour wit and beautiful scenery and great soundtrack its intelligent and speaks about moral high ground with the stepmother and sisters
Posted January 20, 2012
Serenia says:
I LOVE this version of the Cinderella story. I think Drew Barrymore does a fantastic job.
Posted January 06, 2012
Riley-Jane says:
I Love The Movie "Ever After" Andf I Think It Is A Great Family Movie For All Ages. !<3
Posted September 08, 2011
Boke says:
BEST CINDERELLA MOVIE EVER MADE <333
Posted August 26, 2011
jenb says:
This is my all time favorite movie!! Not just chick flick.Movie period. I love everything about it. The story, Danielle, Henry, Leonardo, the sweet & romantic moments, the funny partys & the different take on Cinderella.
Posted February 15, 2011
Silvie says:
I can watch over and over 10000000 times and never get bored. It is my all time favorite!
Posted October 22, 2010
Rebecca says:
My top movie pick of all time. I purchased several for gifts and everyone loved them. I am watching it right now Daniel is just walking into the ball and trying to be brave by telling herself "To just breathe"" "just breathe" dress silver with angel wings... and the prince stops the whole ball to welcome her... I won't tell u the rest... darling movie.
Posted August 28, 2010
arevpub says:
Ever After is in my top 5 favorite movies. I have purchased this movie about 5 different times over the years. As love stories go this movie is the best especially for those of us who are in love with the idea of being in love.
Posted March 25, 2010
No Way! I disagree.
msbaby says:
You really need a third option here, this movie is not the very best ever but worthy of note nonetheless. While it's not the best ever, it's an excellent movie that "princesses" of all ages will enjoy. It was very difficult for me to hit the "No Way, I disagree" button, but wanted to leave an opinion.
Posted December 14, 2008
poddys says:
I wouldn't say it's the best movie ever, but I do like it and Drew Barrymore plays the role so well. I still like the Ella Enchanted version of the Cinderella story with Anne Hathaway.
Posted June 18, 2008
Ever After Information
- Desire. Defy. Escape.
Genre:
Romance
Comedy
Fantasy
Release Date: 1998
Directed by:
Andy Tennant
Actors:
Drew Barrymore
Anjelica Huston
Dougray Scott
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 121 min
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The Mummers' Dance
The Book of Secrets
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Loreena McKennitt's Book of Secrets album features "The Mummers' Dance" used as background music for the Ever After Trailer featured above. This was one of my favorite albums when it was released in 1998.
The Mummer's Dance is perfect music background for this 16th century period movie.
Danielle - Not Your Grandmother's Cinderella
Director Andy Tennant has two daughters of his own. He did not want them growing up believing that they have to "marry a rich guy with a big house in order to live happily ever after."With Ever After he has created a more realistic and empowering "Cinderella," one for a new generation of girls.
Danielle De Barbarac is a new type of Cinderella. She is a woman not likely to stay at home and wait quietly for her prince to rescue her.
This Cinderella will be out fighting with him or for him.
Danielle or Cinderella
What do you think about the updated version of Cinderella?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byDo you like the original fairy tale, Cinderella?
Do you prefer the updated, version, Ever After?
teriann says:
I felt this was well done and enjoy watching different versions.
Posted January 31, 2012
poddys says:
I really love the updated version, especially the fact that that there is a story within a story, with Danielle telling the story to her granddaughter. It's a great movie, and Drew plays it perfectly.
Posted March 08, 2011
Rafika says:
It's ARE the best film in my life. I don't have words to say about this movie. How I wach this film I relise that in this world is nothing who can be so warm, just true love, true feelings. I get very good leson.
Posted January 02, 2009
enslavedbyfaeries says:
I adore the updated version. It is a truly beautiful movie, one of my favorites!
Posted May 13, 2008
Comfortdoc says:
I believe Ever After sends a much more positive message for today's girls (and women) than the traditional Cinderella tale.
Posted December 15, 2007
Drew Barrymore on Her Character Danielle in Ever After
Drew Barrymore had this to say about Danielle:- She's athletic and protective of people. She's adventurous, very strong and a survivor. She's well read, too, because her father gave her wonderfully eloquent, elaborate literature.
In short, she is a 'Cinderella' for a new generation. She definitely is not a passive character.
More Websites about Ever After
- EverAfter (1998) - IMDb
- Directed by Andy Tennant. With Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey. The real story of Cinderella. A refreshing new take on the classic fairy tale.
- Ever After - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 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.
- Ever After - Movie Review
- Parents need to know that this version of the Cinderella story is darker than Disney's -- it doesn't shy away from the nastiness that pervades the relationship between the stepmother and Cinderella (here known as Danielle) -- but it's also far more inspiring and empowering.
- Ever After (1998) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies
- Ever After (1998): In a re-telling of one of our most beloved tales, a resourceful young woman must overcome the schemes of her evil stepmother to be with the one she loves -- the Prince of France -- who has fallen for her beauty and intelligence. With the ingenuity of Leonardo Di Vinci and the stre
- Ever After Costumes
- This page exists as a tribute to Jenny Beavan's beautiful Ever After costumes, and hopes to provide hints and tips for making your own.
- Everaftercos: Historical Paintings and Ever After Costumes
- A webpage with a few paintings that look very similar to other Ever After costumes.
- Ever After Costumes
- A live journal devoted to the Costumes of Ever After.
- Cinderella, Cendrillon, Cenerentola - Insights from a Cinderella Story
- Cinderella, Cendrillon, Cenerentola -- A mythic look at the Cinderella fairy tale and why it is the most popular fairy tale. Jonathan Young, psychologist and assistant to Joseph Campbell, discusses insights into the Cinderella story.
Who is Your Favorite Ever After Character?
La Scapigliata by Da Vinci
Professionally Framed Leonardo Da Vinci (Female Head, La Scapigliata) Art Poster Print Art Poster Print - 11x17 with RichAndFramous Black Wood Frame
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Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair was featured in Ever After. Danielle was thought to be his inspiration for the painting.
You can get your own copy of the Framed Female Head (La Scapigliata) Leonardo Da Vinci Poster.
Best Ever After Scene
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The encounter with the Gypsies and the deal to leave with anything she can carry away (so she leaves with the Prince).
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Danielle's first meeting with the Prince.
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Danielle's floating in the water scene as Lenardo Da Vinci 'walks on water.'
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Danielle and Prince Henry in the Library (in the Franciscan monastery).
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When Danielle shows up at the ball in the beautiful "Breathe" gown and wings.
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When Henry shows up to rescue Danielle from Le Pieu and ultimately proposes.
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When we learn the fate of the stepmother and stepsister, Marguerite.
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Danielle pretending to be Countess Nicole de Lancret.
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Danielle and Pierre Le Pieu, when she vows to 'slit you from navel to nose.'
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Danielle sees her stepmother and stepsister for the last time.
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When we see the gift that Da Vinci has painted of Danielle.
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The closing scene...when we are reminded to live.
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The original is located in the Museum Galleria Nazionale [Palazzo della Pilotta] in Parma, Italy. The Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair painting dates to the 15th century.
Desire. Defy. Escape.
Ever After Fan Tributes on YouTube
Ever After on Amazon
Just Breathe
Remember... Breathe
Best Ever After Quotes
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Danielle: Just Breathe...
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Danielle: My father was an excellent swordsman, monsieur. He taught me well. Now hand me that key or I swear on his grave I will slit you from navel to nose.
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Rodmilla: Darling, nothing is final until you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates.
2 points
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Gypsy: M'lady, you may have anything you can carry.
1 point
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Danielle: I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment, and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life.
1 point
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Leonardo da Vinci: You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.
1 point
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Rodmilla: Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.
1 point
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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..
1 point
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Henry: I wish for nothing more than to be free of my guilded cage.
1 point
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Danielle: A country's character is defined by its "everyday rustics", as you call them. They are the legs you stand on and that position demands respect, not...
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Henry: I uh....I came to...rescue you.
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Narrator: And while Cinderella and her Prince *did* live happily ever after, the point, gentlemen, is that they *lived*.
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Leonardo da Vinci: I know that a life without love is no life at all.
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Henry: In all my years of study, not one tutor ever demonstrated the passion you have shown me in the last two days. You have more conviction in one memory than I have... in my entire being.
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Danielle: You have everything, and still the world holds no joy; and yet you insist on making fun of those who would see it for its possibilities.
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Danelle's Dress
Websites for the Costumes of Ever After
- Ever After Costumes
- A website created as a tribute to Jenny Beavan's beautiful Ever After costumes.
- Ever After Costumes
- A live journal devoted to the Costumes of Ever After.
- Ever After Costume Research
- Ever After Costume Research site! This site is a result of two intensive weeks of costume research for the movie "Ever After: A Cinderella Story."
- EverAfterCos: Historical Paintings and Ever After Costumes
- A webpage with a few paintings that look very similar to other Ever After costumes.
The Magic Comes from Within
Empowering a New Generation of Girls
"Ever After" puts a new spin on the traditional Cinderella message, instead of the magic coming from a fairy godmother, this modern Cinderella discovers that the her magic comes from within.
The Ever After website originally featured beautiful collages eCards of images from the movie, with the following motivational, inspirational and empowering messages:
- You can feel.
- You can believe.
- You can dream.
- You can defy.
- You can rebel.
- You can desire.
- You can promise.
- You can overcome.
- You can escape.
- You can soar.
Dream Affirmations Available on Amazon
You can dream. You can believe.
Believe Affirmations Available on Amazon
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The Point is to Live...
When I saw Ever After, I knew that it was destined to become one of my all time favorites.The messages that I took to heart after watching the film were of inspiration, of hope and of dreams. It is a powerful message to believe in yourself and you can overcome anything and soar.
The final passage in the story, told by the Grand Dame narrator puts a new twist on the living happily ever after...
- While Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after,
the point, gentlemen, is that they lived.
May You Live... Necklace
'May You Live...' Necklace (length: 16")
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Ever After is not only a movie that empowers girls and women, but it is also a gentle reminder to focus on living and to live.
As Jonathan Swift reminds us also May you live every day of your life.
One of my personal favorite jewelry items, this beautiful Far Fetched necklace is a good reminder to keep living each day.
...while Cinderella and her Prince *did* live happily ever after,
the point, gentlemen,
is that they *lived*.
Recipient of the Squids Choice Award
I am pleased to announce that Ever After was one of the first recipients of the new Squids Choice Award for the Month of May where the theme was "Things With Wings."Ever After was entered as a "Things with Wings for the amazing costume complete with wings, that Danelle wears to the ball.
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Ever After Available on eBay
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teriann
Jan 31, 2012 @ 4:19 pm | delete
- this is one of my favorite movies. thx for sharing so much on the movie. I love drew barrymore in this part and started watching for more of dougray scott. I have add this page to my 'valentine's day girl movie wishlist' page and shared a bit of blessing.
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Serenia
Jan 6, 2012 @ 9:20 pm | delete
- I have seen Ever After many times, and I will continue to watch it many times. This movie is now available on Netflix Canada. Wonderful lens. Blessed by a passing angel.
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poddys
Mar 8, 2011 @ 12:47 am | delete
- Wonderful lens on a wonderful movie. Lensrolled to and featured on my Drew Barrymore lens, and Blessed by an angel.
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_Joan_
Jul 5, 2009 @ 11:08 am | delete
- I hope I can check out this version someday. I've lensrolled you.
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msbaby
Dec 14, 2008 @ 2:38 pm | delete
- A lovely lens about a well crafted film. I especially loved going over the quotes section and challenged myself to remember the context of each one. After not doing very well, I'm going to print them and watch the movie again to find them. That's the mark of an excellent lens! Thanks for sharing.
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