A Cinderella Story

A Cinderella Story (2004) is a Warner Bros. romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM — director Mark Rosman's modern high-school spin on the classic fairy tale, starring Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, and Jennifer Coolidge as a memorably self-absorbed stepmother.

Sam Montgomery works double shifts at her late father's diner while her stepmother Fiona pockets every dime and her stepsisters make her life miserable. Sam's one escape is anonymous late-night chats with a guy online who turns out to share her dream of Princeton. At the school's Halloween dance the masks come off — literally — and Sam bolts at midnight, leaving her cell phone behind. Austin Ames, star quarterback and the guy she's been talking to, has to track her down before the moment passes.

The film landed squarely with the generation that grew up watching Hilary Duff on Disney Channel, and it still holds up as a breezy 95-minute comedy about not letting other people write your story. Stream A Cinderella Story (2004) online on iFILM.