TY - ADVS AU - Houston,Whitney AU - Iscovich,Mario AU - Wendkos,Gina AU - Marshall,Garry AU - Schwartzman,Robert AU - Von Detten,Erik AU - Andrews,Julie AU - Lindenlaub,Karl Walter AU - Green,Bruce AU - Debney,John AU - Jones,Gary AU - Cabot,Meg AU - Martin Chase,Debra AU - Berke,Mayne ED - Walt Disney Company. ED - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) ED - Brownhouse (Firm) ED - Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - The princess diaries SN - 0788830848 U1 - 791.43/72 PY - 2001/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Walt Disney Home Entertainment, distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment KW - Princesses KW - Drama KW - High school students KW - California KW - San Francisco KW - Grandmothers KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - lcsh KW - Comedy films N1 - Based on the novel by Meg Cabot; Director of photography, Karl Walter Lindenlaub ; editor, Bruce Green ; music, John Debney ; costume designer, Gary Jones ; production designer, Mayne Berke; Anne Hathaway, Heather Matarazzo, Hector Elizondo, Mandy Moore, Caroline Goodall, Robert Schwartzman, Erik Von Detten, Julie Andrews; MPAA rating: G N2 - Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses- wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake "princess lessons" (and a makeover) from her queenly grandmother, and eventually she blossoms into a confident, radiant girl ER -