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  1. The Princess Diaries was Andrews's first Disney film since Mary Poppins (1964), the role for which she had won an Academy Award for Best Actress 37 years prior, and her first feature film in 15 years.

  2. Aug 3, 2001 · The Princess Diaries: Directed by Garry Marshall. With Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo. Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her sixteenth year.

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    • Comedy, Family, Romance
    • Garry Marshall
    • 2001-08-03
  3. Shy San Francisco teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is thrown for a loop when, from out of the blue, she learns the astonishing news that she's a real-life princess!

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    • Garry Marshall
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    • Julie Andrews
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  5. Synopsis. Mia Thermopolis ( Anne Hathaway) is a fifteen-year-old tenth grade private school student who lives with her mother Helen Thermopolis ( Caroline Goodall) 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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    Mia Thermopolis (Hathaway) is a fifteen-year-old tenth grade private school student who lives with her artistic mother Helen Thermopolis (Caroline Goodall) and her cat, Fat Louie, in a renovated San Francisco firehouse. Mia is an average, plain-looking student, but extremely unpopular. She is seemingly invisible to everyone, especially her crush Jo...

    Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis
    Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi
    Heather Matarazzo as Lilly Moscovitz

    The film was produced by the late Whitney Houston and Debra Martin Chase and directed by Garry Marshall. Anne Hathawaywas hired for the role of Mia because Garry Marshall's granddaughters saw her audition tape and said she had the best "princess hair." Héctor Elizondo, who appears in all the films which Garry Marshall directs, plays Joseph "Joe," t...

    Mia is fourteen in the book and in the ninth grade. She doesn't turn fifteen until book five, Princess in Pink, and doesn't begin tenth grade until book six, Princess in Training. Neither book was...
    The books take place in New York City, not San Francisco as seen in the movie.
    In the books, Mia's father is alive, but not living with her or her mother (Mia was born out of wedlock in the books). Mia is heir to the throne in the books because her dad had testicular cancer a...
    Fat Louie is orange in the book. In the movie, he's black and white.

    The film opened in 2,537 theaters in North Americaand grossed $22,862,269 in its opening weekend. It grossed $165,335,153 worldwide—$108,248,956 in North America and $57,086,197 in other territories. Reviews for the film were mixed. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 46% of 110 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it got a rating aver...

    In one scene, Mia slips on the bleachers while walking on them, according several crew members that scene was unscripted but they kept it anyway.

  6. The Princess Diaries. For teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway), just surviving each school day is an adventure. But when shocking news about the death of her long-absent father arrives, Mia discovers that he was the prince of Genovia, making her a real-life princess.

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