The Princess Bride details
Movie Details:
- Director: Rob Reiner
- Produced By: Act III, 20th Century Fox
- Year: 1987
- Run Time: 98 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Adventure, Children's/Family
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 1987 09 25 (USA)
- Key Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Song (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1987), Full Awards
Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. Indeed, The Princess Bride offers a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale depicting stable boy-turned-pirate Westley's journey to rescue Buttercup (Robin Wright), his true love, away from the evil prince (Chris Sarandon), whom she had agreed to marry five years after learning of what she had believed to be news of Westley's death. With help from Prince Humperdinck's disgruntled former employee Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), and a very large man named Fezzik (Andre the Giant), the star-crossed lovers are reunited. by Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- revenge
- pirate [seafarer]
- evil
- fairytale
- fantasy
- generation-gap
- giant
- hero
- kidnapping
- kingdom
- love
- princess
- rescue
- romance
- swashbuckler
- sword
- troll
- damsel-in-distress
- good-vs-evil
Themes:
- Daring Rescues
- Assumed Identities
- Lovers Reunited
- Heroic Mission
