This film is about a girl, American girl for exact, who has a British father, who works as a politician, whom she hasn't met even for once because her mother left her father when she hasn't born, and never tell her about her father. Daphne Reynolds, portrayed by Amanda Bynes, is a pretty little unique girl who has her own style, full of confidence, fashionable, tough, and strong, yet she's lonely. Her dream to meet her father made her decided to go to England, all by herself, to meet her father.
She decided to leave her house and her mother Libby, portrayed by Kelly Preston, to go to England. When she finally arrived at England, people staring at her like she's a bad girl just because her fashion taste. Then she finally came to her father's house. When she's arrived, people think she's a beggar, but when she says about her mother to her father Lord Henry Dashwood, portrayed by Colin Firth, and shows him her photo album, she suddenly become one of the family member.
It's not easy for her to change her fashion taste and style from a carefree and liberal American girl into a sweet, polite, and feminine British girl. She made riots twice. But eventhough she did those, she made a fussy lady love her. And her grandma love her too. Her grandma love her more than her step sister, who is very ambitious, and her step mother, who's willingly to do anything just to get high social status.
Meanwhile, her father, Henry, doesn't have any idea about her existence. And when she suddenly came there, Henry is so happy. But then he get pressured by the media and Alistair (Jonathan Pryce), Glynnis's father (Henry's fiancee and Daphne's almost become step mother), to change Daphne's attitude. Daphne tried to obey her father, changes her natural self into her fake self, but then when the father-and-daughter dancing starts, Daphne can't dance with her father because Glynnis and Clarissa (Daphne's almost become step sister) lock her in a room, and when she finally found her way out and ran to her father, she saw her father dance with Clarissa. She cries and chooses to come back to America with her mother and her boyfriend Ian, and starts her normal life again.
But, eventhough she comes back from England, she just can't let go of her memories with her father.
At the same time, in England, when her father works alone at night, her grandmother enters his room and says "For decades, our family has sacrifice everything for this country. Everything. Do you know what will you sacrifice now Henry? Your heart." Then she hugs him. And the next day, when Henry wants to give a speech in front of his supporters, he says "I quit." Alistair becomes so angry so he reveals his biggest secret that he's the one who ruined Henry and Libby's relationship. He knew Libby was pregnant so he asked Libby to leave him. After Henry knows about that, he punches Alistair right to his face, then he leaves Glynnis and Clarissa to get his own life.
When Daphne sees her father comes to America, to pick her and her mother, she's very happy. Especially when she sees her father and mother romantic scene. Then, at the end of the movie, Daphne failed the university's enrollment test, but she passed Harvard's test, which has a higher test level.
This film shows me that Money Isn't Too Important, There's Something More Important Than Money, Something Which Money and High Social Status Can't Buy.
When Daphne sees her father comes to America, to pick her and her mother, she's very happy. Especially when she sees her father and mother romantic scene. Then, at the end of the movie, Daphne failed the university's enrollment test, but she passed Harvard's test, which has a higher test level.
This film shows me that Money Isn't Too Important, There's Something More Important Than Money, Something Which Money and High Social Status Can't Buy.
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