A modern-day spin on the Sandra Dee-Rex Harrison film THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE (1958), this light-hearted fairy tale is aimed squarely at pre-teen girls, who are sure to succumb to its spunky charms. Seventeen-year-old Daphne (Amanda Bynes), raised by her single mother, Libby (Kelly Preston), in a 5th-floor walk-up in Manhattan's Chinatown, knows her father only from Libby's bittersweet tales of a romance derailed by class differences. Libby has tried to protect Daphne from the snobbery she experienced, but a sentimental father-daughter wedding dance prompts the misty eyed teen to hop a plane to London, where long-lost dad lives. There she befriends attractive, strugg...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG
Length:
100 mins