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Movie Night With Your Teens
The Princess Bride
Rated: PG
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
Themes: Heroism, revenge, pride, cowardice, true love, faithfulness, teamwork
Running Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Starring: Cary Elwes as Westley; Robin Wright as Buttercup; Mandy Patinkin
as Inigo Montoya; Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck; Christopher Guest as Count
Rugen; Wallace Shawn as Vizzini; André the Giant as Fezzik; Billy Crystal
as Miracle Max; Fred Savage as The Grandson; Peter Falk as Grandpa
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Cautions: While not unduly graphic, violence includes swordplay, stabbings,
malicious torture and a life-and-death struggle with a rodent of unusual size.
Inigo gets drunk. The grandson uses Jesus’ name as an exclamation (following
Inigo and Fezzik’s discovery of Westley in the Pit of Despair, just hit
the mute button after the grandson says, "You mean he wins?"). The
only other language involves a single use of "my god" and "son
of a b----."
Summary
A boy lies sick in bed. Not deathly ill, just sick enough to stay home from
school, eat junk food and play video games. He rolls his eyes when Grandpa flips
off the video game and opens a novel. But it doesn’t take long for the
story to capture his imagination. The Princess Bride brings a fairy tale.
Sword fights. Tests of skill. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True
love.
In the kingdom of Florin, beautiful Buttercup falls in love with a lowly farm
boy named Westley. To earn enough money to be worthy of her hand, Westley seeks
his fortune across the sea. He promises to return. Buttercup’s heart is
broken when she learns that his ship has been attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts,
a notorious scoundrel.
Florin’s arrogant Prince Humperdinck chooses the forlorn Buttercup as
his showpiece bride. He announces their engagement to gain the approval of the
common people, then arranges to have her killed to frame his archenemy, the
King of Gilder, giving Humperdink just cause to start a war. To do his dirty
work, Humperdinck hires a ragamuffin band of thieves. They kidnap Buttercup,
but their plans get upended when a mysterious stranger catches up to them.
The stranger beats each man at his particular strength, while treating each
with professional respect and rescues the princess. Buttercup, believing her
rescuer is the Dread Pirate Roberts, pushes him down a steep hill, only to find
out that the stranger is her true love, Westley. Throwing herself down the hill
after him, the reunited couple is pursued by Humperdinck.
Westley is sent to be tortured as his royal nemesis deceives and prepares to
wed Buttercup. Fezzik and Inigo come to his aid and take him to the hovel of
Miracle Max, where the gnarled apothecary produces a potent pick-me-up.
The trio races to free Buttercup before the nuptials are complete. Inigo finds
his father's murderer and gets his revenge (avoid the SOB line by pressing the
mute button after Inigo miraculously revives and stabs his enemy). After a series
of events, the princess is saved and the group is reunited. Westley and his
love live happily ever after.
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