Cinderella Love Story

Nice romantic movie about an overweight editor who also has an alter-ego as a stylish British agony aunt. The padding they use on Poppy Montgomery and her two co-stars is well done, far better than in the movie ' Shallow Hal', the movie is fairly predictable, but since the story is good, who cares. A girly movie that this bloke enjoyed.

This movie has really low rate. But it seems that it's because people are forgetting that they have been watching a TV movie in the first place.

You shouldn't buy Snickers bar and then expect it to turn into flambée au chocolat or some other high standard five star dessert. No, it's Snickers, for crying out loud. And you should enjoy it - with that in mind.

I'll say this movie has the perfect amount of sugar - when you need it. Of course, full of clichés and predictable plot twists, but - you KNEW that was coming, right? It was YOU who bought the Snickers bar.

So, with that in mind, I want you to decide, what do you need. Do you need complexed story, that you will need to think about months after you watch it, to resolve its' point? Great, then go watch Tarantino.

Do you need quick dose of sugary/romantic content? Then the movie Lying To Be Perfect is great for you.

Just don't watch this movie expecting to see Tarantino. Enjoy it, for what it is: great dose of sugar, when you need it. 😉

I don't know how I stumbled onto this movie or even why I kept watching. It was a bit like a car crash - I just couldn't take my eyes off it. So the premise: you are unlovable, unsuccessful and weak if you are fat. And as each pound melts away, all of these things grow in you.

It is a blindingly vacuous and contrived storyline invented by some cruel creature wanting to shame women.

So here's my alternative- fabulous and beautiful writer recognises that she's immensely talented and capable, grabs some cake and champagne and lives happily ever after with someone who is totally into her and surrounded by friends and joy. And doesn't ever ever think of starving herself again.

The end. There, I fixed it.

While watching this movie, I heard the term "Cinderella Pact" so often that I wondered why that wasn't the film's title. As it turns out, that is the title of the book on which the film is based. But since the book's title is so much better than the one that the movie wound up with -- after all, this is a variation on the age-old Cinderella story -- why *was* the title changed? Did the author disown the movie, or what?

It's hard to complain that more "weight-appropriate" actresses weren't hired to play the three members of the Cinderella Pact because, honestly, how else could they have lost the weight called for in the script without stretching the filming out long enough to break the budget?

To me, the best things in this work are 1) "Cinderella's" gown and slippers, and 2) my discovery of Chelah Horsdal, who plays her best friend.

In closing, I have but one question: has our heroine, who after all is a writer by trade, never heard the term "nom de plume"? Watch the movie to the end, and you'll understand why I ask.

before jumping to judgment on the development of the friends characters, you should give the book: "the Cinderella pact" by Sarah strohmeyer a read. i think the movie did a good job of staying true to the author's story and what a great story it is. so often you read a great book, then a movie is made and it is nothing like the story. thankfully that was not the case in this instance. while the movie doesn't delve as deeply into the secondary characters lives as the novel, you still see the point that the author was making. it is not being "skinny" that empowers these women; it is the bond of their friendship and the self-confidence that they build in one another. we should all be so lucky as to have friends like deb and nancy.