What a Girl Wants

Mar 27, 2003

1h 45m

★ 6.3

Trying to fit in. Born to stand out.

Overview

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Sloane Square Films

Di Novi Pictures

Gaylord Films

Gerber Pictures

HSI Tomorrow Film

Warner Bros. Pictures

What a Girl Wants Trailers

Cast

Daphne Reynolds

Amanda Bynes

Henry Dashwood

Colin Firth

Libby Reynolds

Kelly Preston

Jocelyn Dashwood

Eileen Atkins

Glynnis Payne

Anna Chancellor

Alistair Payne

Jonathan Pryce

Ian Wallace

Oliver James

Clarissa Payne

Christina Cole

Percy

James Greene

Armistead Stuart

Ben Scholfield

Princess Charlotte

Sylvia Syms

Noelle

Tara Summers

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.

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