Ever After (1998) The Least Magical Cinderella

About this episode

The episode revisits the 1998 film Ever After, exploring its take on the Cinderella story without magic.

In this episode of I Remember Liking That Movie, we head back to the Renaissance for a supposedly smarter, more grounded take on Cinderella with Ever After from 1998. Starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott, the film ditches fairy godmothers and magic in favor of historical realism… and somehow still finds room for Leonardo da Vinci.One of us remembers this one as the “classy” Cinderella, the version with brains, attitude, and a heroine who can quote philosophy while throwing apples at royalty. One of us has never seen it. We’ll let you guess who is who. So does this prestige fairy tale still charm, or does it feel more like a history lecture wrapped in corsets?Join us as we revisit mean stepmothers, awkward princes, suspiciously convenient Renaissance geniuses, and a fairy tale that may or may not be taking itself way too seriously.Does Ever After still hold up… or did one of us just remember liking it, and will the other even like it?

Topics covered

• Cinderella
• film review
• historical realism
• fairy tales

Keywords

• Drew Barrymore
• Anjelica Huston
• Dougray Scott
• Leonardo da Vinci

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ever After, I Remember Liking That Movie, Cinderella

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