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  • Adaptation Displacement: Most don't know about the the 1958 film it's based on, The Reluctant Debutante.
  • Dawson Casting: Subverted. Amanda Bynes was actually sixteen playing a seventeen year old. The movie was released on the day after Amanda’s seventeenth birthday.
  • Funny Moments: "I don't give a FLYING FART IN SPACE..." coming from Colin Firth. That's a far stretch from Mr. Darcy...
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: We're supposed to think that Lord Dashwood asking Daphne to tone down her behaviour when cameras are about is wrong and that Daphne should be allowed to act as wild as she likes, but his requests come across as fairly reasonable when she does things like destroy priceless chandeliers and throw men into lakes in fits of rage (although the latter had repeatedly sexually harassed and/or assaulted her at that point).
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Daphne's Love Interest, Ian. We're supposed to sympathize with him when he's disgusted by how different she's acting, even though she double-booked their date by accident, and she can't drop the other commitment because it would reflect badly on her and her father, who she's trying to cultivate a relationship with. He doesn't give her even a moment to explain any of this, nor even try to understand how important this is to her, before leaving in a huff; and he even rebuffs her when she tries to talk to him about it later.

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