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What a Girl Wants (2003)

What a Girl Wants poster
Directed by
Dennie Gordon
Genre
coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 1,729 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage girl travels to Britain to connect with the aristocratic father she has never met. She shakes up his formal world with her free-spirited American ways.

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What happens

What a Girl Wants is a 2003 American teen comedy film directed by Dennie Gordon and written by Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler. Based on the 1955 play The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas-Home, it is the second adaptation for the screen of this work and stars Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, and Jonathan Pryce. The film tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who goes to the United Kingdom to meet the father she never knew. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 4, 2003, received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $51 million worldwide against a $25 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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