Genre: Fantasy / Romance
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast:
- Cate Blanchett (Lady Tremaine)
- Lily James (Ella / "Cinderella")
- Richard Madden (Prince "Kit" Charming)
- Stellan Skarsgård (The Grand Duke)
- Holliday Grainger (Anastasia)
- Derek Jacobi (The King)
- Helena Bonham Carter (The Fairy Godmother)
- Sophie McShera (Drizella)
- Nonso Anozie (Captain)
- Hayley Atwell (Cinderella's Mother)
- Ben Chaplin (Cinderella's Father)
Release Date: 12th March 2015
Running Time: 1 Hour 52 Minutes
Movie Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Language: English
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Movie Synopsis / Plot
Ella lives with her wealthy parents on a beautiful estate in a peaceful kingdom. From a young age, she is taught by her mother to believe in the existence of magic, allowing her to befriend many animals on the estate, particularly the mice. Everything is perfect until her mother contracts an illness and dies. On her deathbed, she makes Ella promise that she will always have courage and show kindness to others. Years later, when Ella is a teenager, her father marries Lady Tremaine, the widow of an old acquaintance, who has two daughters: Drisella and Anastasia. Ella welcomes her stepfamily, despite the stepsisters' unpleasant attitudes and her need to protect her mouse friends from her stepmother's cat, Lucifer.
Soon after, Ella's father goes abroad on business, promising his stepdaughters gifts of luxury. His own daughter merely asks for the first branch to brush against his shoulder on the way. While he is gone, Lady Tremaine begins to gradually reveal her true cold, cruel and jealous nature, persuading Ella to sleep in the attic and let Drisella and Anastasia have her room. Soon they receive word that Ella's father has fallen ill and died. Desperate for money, Lady Tremaine dismisses the servants and forces Ella to do all their work; later she refuses to let Ella eat with the family. One cold evening, Ella sleeps by the fireplace for warmth. The next day, she rises with her face covered in cinders. Her stepsisters consequently mock her as "Cinderella" - a taunt in which Lady Tremaine joins.
Crushed by her stepfamily's cruelty, Ella goes for a ride into the woods, where she encounters a hunting party. She meets one of the hunters, who claims to be an apprentice named Kit who lives in the palace. Unknown to her, he is actually the only son of the land's dying king. Despite never learning her name, Kit (a nickname given to him by his father) is enchanted by Ella's charm, kindness, and unique outlook on life and becomes infatuated with her. On learning that he has little time left, the King insists that Kit find a bride at an upcoming ball. Although Kit is required to marry a princess, he can't get over the mystery girl, and he persuades his father to let every eligible maiden in the land attend.
When the ball is announced, the Tremaine family is ecstatic at the prospect of marrying into royalty. However, when Lady Tremaine refuses to buy Ella a new dress, Ella fixes up an old pink dress of her mother's with help from the mice. On the night of the ball, Ella tries to join her stepfamily on the way out. Lady Tremaine, claiming that her mere presence will disgrace them, goads her daughters into helping her rip up the dress before leaving without her. Ella runs into the garden in tears, where she encounters an old beggar woman, who reveals herself to be her fairy godmother. She uses her magic to reveal her true form and subsequently to turn a pumpkin into a magnificent carriage, four mice into horses, two lizards into footmen, and a goose into a coachman. She then transforms Ella's dress into a gorgeous blue gown, complete with a delicate pair of glass shoes before sending her on her way with the warning that the spell only lasts until midnight.
At the ball, the entire court is entranced by Ella, especially Kit. She wins the coveted first dance with him, whose true identity she is pleasantly surprised to learn. This irritates the Grand Duke, who secretly promised Kit to a specific princess—a fact that Lady Tremaine overhears. After dancing, Ella and Kit tour the palace and grounds together. But before he can learn her name, the clock begins to strike twelve, forcing her to flee and accidentally drop one of her glass shoes at the palace stairs in the process. She manages to get away before the stroke of midnight and hides the other shoe in her room as a memento, reasonably content that her one night will become a beautiful memory.
Soon after, the King dies, but not before giving his son permission to find the girl and marry her if he wishes. After Kit becomes king, he has it announced that every maiden in the kingdom is to try on the shoe. Ella goes to her room to get the other shoe, only to find her stepmother waiting with it in her hand. Lady Tremaine has deduced that Ella is the mystery maiden. She demands to be made the head of the royal household if Ella marries Kit. She also demands that Ella ensure that Drisella and Anastasia get proper husbands as well. Ella refuses, so Lady Tremaine smashes the shoe and locks her in the attic. She then brings the shattered shoe and identity of the mystery girl to the Grand Duke and blackmails him into rewarding her with the title of countess and advantageous marriages for her daughters. The Duke takes the shattered shoe to Kit, hoping to persuade him to forget the mystery girl, but this makes Kit more determined than ever to find her.
The Grand Duke and the captain of the guards lead a mission to try the remaining shoe on all the maidens in the land, but it fits none of them. When they arrive at the Tremaine estate, the shoe fits neither of the stepsisters. The officers turn to leave, only to hear Ella singing ("Lavender's Blue") through a window that the mice opened for that purpose. The Grand Duke tries to leave anyway, but one of the men reveals himself to be Kit in disguise and demands that the captain investigate the sound. Once Ella is found, Lady Tremaine forbids her to try on the shoe on the grounds that she is Ella's mother, but is overruled by the captain. Ella then curtly tells Lady Tremaine that she is not, and never has been, her mother. She and Kit are finally reunited. Kit recognizes Ella even without the shoe, which fits perfectly. The Grand Duke and the stepsisters plead for forgiveness. Ella leaves with Kit after forgiving her stepmother, who leaves the kingdom with her daughters and the Grand Duke.
At the wedding, Kit and Ella are crowned as the new king and queen. The Fairy Godmother narrates that they become the land's most beloved monarchs, ruling with the courage and kindness Ella had promised her mother, and they live happily ever after.
Movie Review
Most of the kids know about the fairy tale which is name <CINDERELLA>. The movie is suitable for the kids because they can learn about a fairy tale through the movie. Before the movie is played, there is an additional film, which is called <FROZEN FEVER>, a sequel short film for <FROZEN>. The short film is talking about Elsa and Kristoff is preparing the birthday part for Anna. In order for Anna to find the surprise, Anna has to follow the red string to bring her from one present to next. However, Elsa get a cold, which causes her to summon a lot of mini-snowman. Back to <CINDERELLA>, the movie start with Ella is a baby and they lead a happy life. When Ella is grow, she has a kind heart and can take care of the animals very well. Her father always went out to work and will return to home after a long time. One day, her mother was sick and before she died, she taught Ella a secret, which is "Have courage and be kind". She is believe about Fairy Godmother is exist. Many years, Ella stay alone with her father and her father think to marry another woman called Lady Tremaine. She moved into their house with two daughters, which will become Ella's stepsisters. When her father left the house for work, Tremaine told Ella not to call her mother but madam. And she treat Ella like the maid and told her to sleep on the loft instead to sleep in her room. One day, her father was passed away due to the illness, and Tremaine called off the maid because they can't pay their salary. This time, Ella has a lot of work to do. At one time, she can't take it anymore and she ride on a horse and meet the moose. The moose looks fierce and Ella was managed to calm it down. Suddenly, the prince and his team want to hunt the moose and Ella asked it to run. When the prince stopped her for ride the horse fast and she get angry with the prince want to hunt the moose since the moose was done nothing wrong with them. The prince saw the kindness from Ella and both of them hope to see each other again. At the same time, the prince's father asked him to find the princess and married them as a wife. He planned to organize a ball for the princess. But the prince want to invite all the civilians so that he can meet with Ella. Ella heart the news when she go to the town and told this to Tremaine. She told Ella to find the tailor to make the 3 dresses and Ella was she given the dress by her stepmother, actually the 3 dresses is for her stepmother and her stepsisters. She take her mother's dress and sew it back. At the same time, Tremaine hope the prince will marry with her daughters. During the day for the ball, Ella thought she can go to the ball with her stepmother and her stepmother rip her dress so that she can't go to the ball. She was very sad and this time, the Fairy Godmother was dressed up like a beggar to ask Ella for any food. Ella gave her the milk and she know Ella was crying. She helped Ella on the equipments to the ball, such as the pumpkin vehicle, dress, shoe and so on. She reminded Ella that the last rang of the midnight, everything will return to normal. When she reached the ball, she is the prettiest girl in the ball and the prince dance with him and bring her to his secret garden. Around midnight, she run away from the prince as she don't want the prince find out her real identity. She accidentally left one of the glass shoe in the palace and leave the palace. She was happy with what was happened in the ball and she keep the glass shoe and write down on her diary. The next day, the prince's father was very ill and he asked the prince to find the girl, although at first he don't agree. He think that the prince should marry because of love, not because of power. Ella and her stepsisters heard that the prince want to marry with the secret princess with the glass shoe. All the girls went to the palace and try out the shoe and failed. Tremaine found out the glass shoe and she know the secret princess is Ella. She break the shoe and lock up Ella in the loft. She make a deal with Grand Duke. Grand Duke is not agree with the prince to marry with Ella but Priness Celine, and the deal is to marry her daughters to the royal family. At the time, the prince and his team go to the town to find the girl who is fit with the glass shoe. During the time when they reached Ella's home, Tremaine and her stepsisters failed to wear the shoe. And they lie to the prince that there is no other girl. Ella doesn't want to care who is on the doorstep because she doesn't want the prince know her real identity. The mice helped her to open the window and the prince hear her singing. Grand Duke want to ask the team to return but the prince refused. Finally, Ella can wear the shoe and he married her. She forgive what Lady Tremaine and her daughters did to her. Grand Duke, Lady Tremaine and her daughters was kicked out from the kingdom and can't return to the kingdom. The story ends here. As a conclusion, no matter what happened, we should have courage and be kind like Cinderella.
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