|  We all remember the story from our childhoods. Poor orphaned Cinderella, forced to carry water from the well and sweep the dirt floors of her evil step-mother's dreary cottage every day while dreaming of a handsome prince who would rescue her from her life of toil to go live in his drafty old castle. Very medieval. Plus, there was a fairy godmother sprinkling pixie dust, a pumpkin morphing into a golden coach and a lot of talking mice.
Okay... and this relates to real life, how?
|  It was Hillary and Chad's first time working together and, as luck would have it, the shooting schedule dictated that one of their first scenes together was up-close and personal.
"We had met but hadn't had much time to talk to each other on the set," Duff recalls, "and then maybe the third day of shooting we had this big kissing scene."
"We barely knew each other," Murray chimes in. "It was a big scene, and it had to be raining, so we were being pelted with these big fat drops of fake rain, because regular sized rain doesn't show up well on camera. I'm talking quarter-sized drops of water dropping down on us. Imagine a waterfall going over your face and every time you try to breathe while you're kissing, bubbles go up your nose or water goes into your mouth. Fun, right?"
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Cinderella never had it this bad. In A Cinderella Story -- a twisted and hilarious updateÊof the classic fairy tale -- high school senior Sam Montgomery (HILARY DUFF) lives at the beck and call of her self-obsessed step-mother Fiona (JENNIFER COOLIDGE) and her sinfully wicked step-sisters, who treat her more like a servant than a member of the family.
 With
her sights set on attending Princeton, Sam finds her less-than-sparkling
social life wonderfully complicated when she meets her prince charming
online. But when her anonymous cyber soul mate turns out to be her
high school's uber-popular quarterback Austin Ames (CHAD MICHAEL
MURRAY), Sam makes a mad dash back to reality, leaving her cell
phone behind just before the clock strikes midnight.
Fearing rejection if her secret is revealed, Sam dodges Austin's
efforts to discover the identity of his princess. Will Sam let fear
hold her back, or will she find the courage to be herself and claim
the life she's always wanted? Her chance at "happily ever after"
depends on it.
This has been rated PG by the MPAA for mild language and innuendo.
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