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Fresh-faced Nickelodeon starlet Amanda Bynes stars in What a Girl Wants as Daphne, a 17-year-old girl in New York City who's spent her life pin...(read more...)
ing for her absent father, a British lord named Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth) whom her mother (Kelly Preston) met during wilder days in Morocco. Tired of waiting for him to come to her, she decides to head to London where Dashwood is launching his political career--which could be derailed by her fun-loving, free-spirited attitude. Will her father choose the daughter he's never known or a position in Parliament? The plot of What a Girl Wants is ridiculously contrived, but the movie rides on the chemistry between Bynes and Firth. When, under Daphne's influence, Dashwood tries to break out of his stuffy shell and rediscover his inner rebel, the movie really starts to have fun. --Bret Fetzer
Director:
Dennie Gordon
MPAA: PG
Running Time: 100 min.
Release Date: Apr 04, 2003
Cast:
Amanda Bynes,
Anna Chancellor,
Colin Firth,
Eileen Atkins,
Jonathan Pryce,
Kelly Preston,
Oliver James,
Roger Ashton-Griffiths,
Tom Harper
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