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Go see Enchanted! We all want Amy Adams to be recognized for making this modern fairy tale work—making a princess prototype character interesting is no easy feat. Witness Mandy Moore in that movie where she's the president's daughter, or whatever that was.
Anyway, let us now kick off our glass slippers and gaze upon the modern fairy tales that make our hearts leap. The elements are key: star-crossed lovers, socio-economic differences, evil family getting in the way. These are the princesses/stepsisters/underdogettes we'd like to be for a day—specifically, the day they meet the prince. You may call some of these guilty pleasures, but I say screw guilt!
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1. Pretty Woman: Being a hooker is great. You don't have any diseases, you have great skin and you don't have to kiss your tricks on the lips. And then one day you—you being Julia Roberts—are strutting along Hollywood Boulevard when the greatest John ever—he being Richard Gere—picks you up. Sign me up!
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2. The Wedding Singer: It's the '80s, a time when women are in pantsuits, taking over the workplace, but Julia, soon to be Goolia (Drew Barrymore), is just another waitress engaged to a rich jerk. And Robbie (Adam Sandler) bucks the greed-is-good wave and hones his craft. In this egalitarian fairy tale, the girl and the guy really do make like Pretty Woman and rescue each other right back.
3. Up Close and Personal: Only rugged reporter Warren Justice (Robert Redford, who apparently just wanted to make out with Michelle Pfeiffer) can see the potential in bumpkin upstart journalizer Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer). He tells her to change her name to Tally. LOL.
4. Maid in Manhattan: Never mind being a hooker. Being a maid in a high-class hotel is a way better avenue to the good, rich life. Here, a cleaning lady (Jennifer Lopez) shakes her tush in a rich hotel guest's couture and thus draws the attention of a hot hotshot politician (Ralph Fiennes, on life support). True love, people, so true.
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5. The Princess Bride: Anyone who's friends with me on MySpace knows I am not a number one fan of Rob Reiner and William Goldman's classic. But who cares? The story of Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright) and Westley (Cary Elwes) has moved so many people to tears and laughs and repeated Netflixing that I can't not include it. So there. I took one for the team.
6. The Mirror Has Two Faces: Once upon a time, there was a lonely professor (Barbra Streisand) with an overbearing mother (Lauren Bacall) and an unjustly sexy sister (Mimi Rogers). Then along came a sexy blond lothario gentile professor (Jeff Bridges) who wanted her...because he didn't, you know, want her. Old-fashioned absurdity doesn't get any better than this.
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7. What a Girl Wants: …is to be a teenager (Amanda Bynes), run away to London, meet a hot guitarist (Oliver James), meet the dad she never knew (Colin Firth), become an overnight royal debutante and get her parents back together. This is truly the cloying mother of all fairy tales, and I love it.
8. Splash: The mermaid (Daryl Hannah) meets the nice guy (Tom Hanks), who saves her from the horror of the capitalist world. And she is named for Madison Avenue. Ha. There is even a scene on a whale-watching boat. How more perfect can a movie be?
9. Working Girl: AKA the pinnacle of Melanie Griffith's career, when she gave life, gusto and big hair to Tess McGill, a naive secretary with—as we all know—"a head for business and a bod for sin." Her prince (Harrison Ford) can eventually see through the Shalimar-laced cruelty of Tess' evil boss (Sigourney Weaver). Before it was common Oprah-speak to cry out, "You go, girl," Tess went for it. We will always love her for that.
10. You tell me! What'd I miss? Hit me in the Comments.
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