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, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 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 fence folk healer greenland inherit inigo montoya kidnap kill knock out married masked man mostly dead murder passionate kiss polydactyly presumed dead sicilian sicilian people six-fingered man spaniard spanish their way tumble vizier wedding vows white horse young woman |
| musicBy | Mark Knopfler |
| producer | Andrew Scheinman Rob Reiner |
| productionCompany | Act III Communications Buttercup Films The Princess Bride Ltd. |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox Vestron Pictures |
| theme | children's adventure romantic comedy romantic fantasy swashbuckler |