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*** The fact that Joey’s actor is 25 and cast opposite of 15-year-old Selena Gomez, who’d could pass for 13, makes it even worse.
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*** Maybe Mary skipped a few grades and Joey took a “few” years off of school for his work. (It would explain a few things)
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The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Creator/JaneLynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Creator/JessicaParkerKennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Creator/JaneLynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) (Creator/KatharineIsabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Creator/JessicaParkerKennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Creator/JaneLynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Jessica Parker Kennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Creator/JaneLynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Jessica Parker Kennedy), (Creator/JessicaParkerKennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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* FlippingTheBird: Variation. Tami shows her fist to Bree and screams, "Here's my invisible finger!"
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* {{Irony}}: See LaserGuidedKarma.
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* {{Irony}}: See LaserGuidedKarma.
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** Averted with Regina
** Averted with Regina
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: When Dominique tells Mary she can't go to the ball as she has to clean her [[TrashOfTheTitans ridiculously filthy room]] before midnight, Tami arrives with some ([[UnfortunateImplications Asian]]) acquaintances of her sister, telling her that she's going to the ball. She did go, and she did have a good time, but she had to get back before midnight or else Dominique would suspect something.
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: When Dominique tells Mary she can't go to the ball as she has to clean her [[TrashOfTheTitans ridiculously filthy room]] before midnight, Tami arrives with some ([[UnfortunateImplications Asian]]) acquaintances of her sister, telling her that she's going to the ball. She did go, and she did have a good time, but she had to get back before midnight or else Dominique would suspect something.
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The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Jane Lynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Jessica Parker Kennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Jane Lynch) (Creator/JaneLynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Jessica Parker Kennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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The spiritual successor to HilaryDuff's Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (SelenaGomez), (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Jane Lynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt. Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami, Tami (Jessica Parker Kennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).
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* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle played [[Film/GingerSnaps sisters]].
** While probably not intended, it is kind of ironic that SelenaGomez is replacing HilaryDuff in this movie, considering she was going to star in a failed LizzieMcGuire SpinOff back in the day.
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* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle played [[Film/GingerSnaps sisters]]. This is also the third movie JaneLynch has played a WickedStepmother.WickedStepmother.
** While probably not intended, it is kind of ironic that SelenaGomez is replacing HilaryDuff in this movie, considering she was going to star in a failed LizzieMcGuire SpinOff back in the day.
** While probably not intended, it is kind of ironic that SelenaGomez is replacing HilaryDuff in this movie, considering she was going to star in a failed LizzieMcGuire SpinOff back in the day.
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* FosteringForProfit: Dominique adopts Mary for the sake of using her as unpaid help.
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** Dominique says to Joey. "Let's do it." She means a duet, but the look on his face shows he was thinking otherwise.
** Tami's [[FlippingTheBird "invisible finger"]]
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Joey, on the other hand, is a famous, [[DawsonCasting "young"]] dancer/singer who comes back to Los Angeles with his best friend Dustin/The Funk (Marcus Paulk) to remember why he started dancing - but all he can find is his AlphaBitch ex-girlfriend Natalia (Nicole La Placa), who seems determined to get back together with him (much to his dismay).
At a masked black-and-white ball Dominique, Bree, and Britt try their best to keep Mary out of, Joey dances anonymously with Mary, and is left exhilarated even after she leaves to meet her midnight curfew. Determined to find her, he takes the Zune she leaves behind and sets out to find her.
!!Tropes associated with this movie:
* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle played [[Film/GingerSnaps sisters]]. This is also the third movie JaneLynch has played a WickedStepmother.
* AlliterativeName: Bree and Britt Blatt, Mary's evil stepsisters.
* AlphaBitch: Natalia.
* BetaCouple: Tami and the Funk.
* BlackBestFriend: The Funk to Joey.
* BlondesAreEvil: Dominique and Natalia. Bree and Britt would be evil if they weren't so dumb.
** According to WordOfGod, they originally wanted Tami to be blonde, though she ended up with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]]
* CoolLoser: Mary.
* DanceOfRomance: The reason Joey falls for Mary.
* DawsonCasting: Drew Seeley (25) is supposed to be a high school student. Uh-huh. Emily Perkins (Britt) was 31 when this movie was made, and still a mostly believable high schooler.
** The fact that he's cast opposite of 15-year-old SelenaGomez, who could probably pass for 13, makes it even worse
* DumbBlonde: Mary's stepsisters are as stupid as they are rich.
* FlippingTheBird: Variation. Tami shows her fist to Bree and screams, "Here's my invisible finger!"
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dominique says she will never work with a certain man because he has a "serious case of the grab-hands". Later, she repeats this description for a woman she refuses to work with.
** The SeparatedByTheWall scene is rather sensual.
** When Joey sets up a booth to find his "Cinderella" figure, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim a few boys]] [[HoYay get in the line]], too. The Funk drives them off, saying, "You are ''so'' not his dream girl!"
** A video reveals that Joey is at least ten years older than Mary, who is still in high school.
** The NotWhatItLooksLike scene.
* HighSchoolDance
* {{Irony}}: See LaserGuidedKarma.
* {{Jerkass}}: There's Dominique, Natalia, Bree, and Britt.
* JiveTurkey: The Funk.
* [[TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper The Girl Who Can Tell Me The Top Four Songs on Their Zune's Playlist]]: How Joey sets out to find Mary. Naturally, dozens of girls turn up.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Dominique, determined to keep Mary away from the Manhattan Academy of Dance in fear of losing her, tells the Academy's teacher that Mary has broken both legs and is unable to dance. Near the end of the movie, Dominique falls off the stage of Joey's concert and breaks both her legs.]]
* LittleMissSnarker: Mary, [[spoiler: especially when Joey calls her up to the stage during his concert to apologize.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Joey, from what we can see.
* {{Meganekko}}: Tami, although she doesn't act like it.
* OfficialCouple: Joey and Mary.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Mary walks in on Natalia on top of Joey in bed. It turns out that Natalia had broken into his house and jumped on him.
* ProductPlacement: Probably the only movie in existence to feature a Zune instead of an iPod.
* RichBitch: Natalia, played completely, absolutely straight. Dominique, too.
* SeparatedByTheWall: The male lead is teaching a dance class and the female lead is following along on the other side of the one way mirror. At one point they both lean into the mirror in the same exact spot and appear to feel something from it, even though he doesn't know she's there and they haven't properly met yet.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy
* TrashOfTheTitans: Dominique's bedroom.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: When Dominique tells Mary she can't go to the ball as she has to clean her [[TrashOfTheTitans ridiculously filthy room]] before midnight, Tami arrives with some ([[UnfortunateImplications Asian]]) acquaintances of her sister, telling her that she's going to the ball. She did go, and she did have a good time, but she had to get back before midnight or else Dominique would suspect something.
* WickedStepmother: Dominique, Dominique, Dominique.
* WitchWithACapitalB: Averted; while Dominique is often called a "witch" in the movie, this probably has more to do with the whole [[FairyTaleMotifs fairy tale theme]] than anything.
* {{Yandere}}: Natalia.
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Joey, on the other hand, is a famous, [[DawsonCasting "young"]] dancer/singer who comes back to Los Angeles with his best friend Dustin/The Funk (Marcus Paulk) to remember why he started dancing - but all he can find is his AlphaBitch ex-girlfriend Natalia (Nicole La Placa), who seems determined to get back together with him (much to his dismay).
At a masked black-and-white ball Dominique, Bree, and Britt try their best to keep Mary out of, Joey dances anonymously with Mary, and is left exhilarated even after she leaves to meet her midnight curfew. Determined to find her, he takes the Zune she leaves behind and sets out to find her.
!!Tropes associated with this movie:
* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle played [[Film/GingerSnaps sisters]]. This is also the third movie JaneLynch has played a WickedStepmother.
* AlliterativeName: Bree and Britt Blatt, Mary's evil stepsisters.
* AlphaBitch: Natalia.
* BetaCouple: Tami and the Funk.
* BlackBestFriend: The Funk to Joey.
* BlondesAreEvil: Dominique and Natalia. Bree and Britt would be evil if they weren't so dumb.
** According to WordOfGod, they originally wanted Tami to be blonde, though she ended up with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair purple hair]]
* CoolLoser: Mary.
* DanceOfRomance: The reason Joey falls for Mary.
* DawsonCasting: Drew Seeley (25) is supposed to be a high school student. Uh-huh. Emily Perkins (Britt) was 31 when this movie was made, and still a mostly believable high schooler.
** The fact that he's cast opposite of 15-year-old SelenaGomez, who could probably pass for 13, makes it even worse
* DumbBlonde: Mary's stepsisters are as stupid as they are rich.
* FlippingTheBird: Variation. Tami shows her fist to Bree and screams, "Here's my invisible finger!"
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dominique says she will never work with a certain man because he has a "serious case of the grab-hands". Later, she repeats this description for a woman she refuses to work with.
** The SeparatedByTheWall scene is rather sensual.
** When Joey sets up a booth to find his "Cinderella" figure, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim a few boys]] [[HoYay get in the line]], too. The Funk drives them off, saying, "You are ''so'' not his dream girl!"
** A video reveals that Joey is at least ten years older than Mary, who is still in high school.
** The NotWhatItLooksLike scene.
* HighSchoolDance
* {{Irony}}: See LaserGuidedKarma.
* {{Jerkass}}: There's Dominique, Natalia, Bree, and Britt.
* JiveTurkey: The Funk.
* [[TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper The Girl Who Can Tell Me The Top Four Songs on Their Zune's Playlist]]: How Joey sets out to find Mary. Naturally, dozens of girls turn up.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Dominique, determined to keep Mary away from the Manhattan Academy of Dance in fear of losing her, tells the Academy's teacher that Mary has broken both legs and is unable to dance. Near the end of the movie, Dominique falls off the stage of Joey's concert and breaks both her legs.]]
* LittleMissSnarker: Mary, [[spoiler: especially when Joey calls her up to the stage during his concert to apologize.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Joey, from what we can see.
* {{Meganekko}}: Tami, although she doesn't act like it.
* OfficialCouple: Joey and Mary.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Mary walks in on Natalia on top of Joey in bed. It turns out that Natalia had broken into his house and jumped on him.
* ProductPlacement: Probably the only movie in existence to feature a Zune instead of an iPod.
* RichBitch: Natalia, played completely, absolutely straight. Dominique, too.
* SeparatedByTheWall: The male lead is teaching a dance class and the female lead is following along on the other side of the one way mirror. At one point they both lean into the mirror in the same exact spot and appear to feel something from it, even though he doesn't know she's there and they haven't properly met yet.
* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy
* TrashOfTheTitans: Dominique's bedroom.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: When Dominique tells Mary she can't go to the ball as she has to clean her [[TrashOfTheTitans ridiculously filthy room]] before midnight, Tami arrives with some ([[UnfortunateImplications Asian]]) acquaintances of her sister, telling her that she's going to the ball. She did go, and she did have a good time, but she had to get back before midnight or else Dominique would suspect something.
* WickedStepmother: Dominique, Dominique, Dominique.
* WitchWithACapitalB: Averted; while Dominique is often called a "witch" in the movie, this probably has more to do with the whole [[FairyTaleMotifs fairy tale theme]] than anything.
* {{Yandere}}: Natalia.
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