What a Girl Wants

Name: What a Girl Wants
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: April 4, 2003
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston

2003

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: April 4, 2003 | PG

Starring: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston

Summary: Determined to live out her fantasy of forging a storybook relationship with her long-absent dad, a spirited young American girl (Bynes) impulsively hops a flight to London, where she quickly discovers that her father (Firth) is a high profile politician. (Warner Bros.)

Director: Dennie Gordon

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 105 min

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Owen Gleiberman

In her sassy but scrubbed way, Bynes is a real charmer, and What a Girl Wants is a likable throwaway. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Minnelli's comedy had its serious underpinnings: by the end of the film, a girl had become a woman. By the end of Ms. Gordon's film, the girl is still a girl, but a girl with much cooler stuff, including a stately home, a butler and a cute British boyfriend. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Works well enough. It has a decided plus in its appealing young star, Amanda Bynes, last seen opposite Frankie Muniz in "Big Fat Liar." Read full review

Connie Ogle

It's a cheery, impossible fantasy. Read full review

Janice Page

It's not that What a Girl Wants is dreadful; it's merely slapdash, wildly inconsistent in tone and style, and mind-numbingly predictable in character and plot. Read full review

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

Very sketchily based upon "The Reluctant Debutante" (minus the charm, plot, and characterization). Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Young audiences may welcome this movie, but girls, and boys, should want more.

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Feeferface

Oct 7, 2019

Love Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth! Makes me wish Colin Firth were my dad!
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Christine

Nov 2, 2005

I think it's a great movie...well.it's true that it's a girl movie.but it's cool....colin firth is the best.

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JaniceP.

Jul 29, 2007

I would recommend this movie to everyone to watch. there were happy and sad moments and it reaches out to the young and the old. The cast is incredible especially Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth.

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Katherine

Aug 8, 2006

I thought it ws good. Not great.

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clay

Jan 25, 2007

Lame. total copy off Cinderella, and not even in a clever way. good film if you love stereotypes though.

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Jan 23, 2012

A horrible teenage flick that is only good for a certain audience: otherwise What A Girl Wants fails. I guess I can say this movie is What A Girl Wants, but not what anyone else wants.

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