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Trap for Cinderella (2013)

Trap for Cinderella poster
Directed by
Iain Softley
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
12
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman survives a fire that kills her childhood friend but loses her memory. She uses the dead friend's diary to reconstruct her past.

mysterioustensepsychologicaldarkmelancholicclaustrophobicslow-burngripping

What happens

Trap for Cinderella is a 2013 British thriller drama film written and directed by Iain Softley and starring Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach, Kerry Fox, Aneurin Barnard, Frances de la Tour and Emilia Fox. Based on the novel Piège pour Cendrillon by Sébastien Japrisot, the film is about a young woman who loses her memory after surviving a fire that kills her childhood friend. Through reading her dead friend's diary, she begins to put the pieces of her shattered life back together. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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