The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant and Robin Wright. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.
Plot
A grandfather reads a novel to his sick grandson, who initially dismisses the story.
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| author | William Goldman |
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| award | Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation |
| contentLocation | Central Europe |
| director | Rob Reiner |
| editor | Robert Leighton |
| events | sea piracy |
| genre | adventure comedy drama fantasy romance |
| keywords | attack dread pirate roberts drink duel fence folk healer inigo montoya kidnap kill masked man mostly dead murder obsess passionate kiss polydactyly presumed dead retire sicilian sicilian people six-fingered man spaniard spanish sword duel taunt their way torture chamber tumble wed young woman |
| musicBy | Mark Knopfler |
| producer | Andrew Scheinman Rob Reiner |
| productionCompany | Act III Communications Buttercup Films |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox Vestron Pictures |
| theme | children's romantic comedy romantic fantasy swashbuckler |