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  • Iris has pretty skin, pretty face and pretty hair... it's so UNREALISTIC to portrait her as the 'ugly' sister... if they wanted her to play the 'ugly' sister, they should at least made her look less cute, with less pretty hair and more pale... she was with pretty skin, rosy cheeks and lips and pretty hair -- nothing ugly at all, but really cute.

    By the way, she looks way too much like Bonnie Wright... they could be sisters or something. They should be in a movie together, as relatives.

  • Mathew Goode!!  So handsome and charming!

  • I think Iris is quite pretty! She reminds me a little of Bonnie Wright!

  • Oh! Matthew is handsome in this serie.

  • at first time i thought iris is bonnie wright . but i was wrong , it is

    azura skye ! azura really looks like bonnie ! LOL

  • omg. that rizzo from grease.

  • in most of the books and movies they wer ugly on the inside not outside so i think this should be a motto 4 every1; u may be the prettest outside and the uglyest inside but the guy/girl will go after the 1 who has inner beuty

  • I have no clue of what this story is about. Can someone explain this to me?

  • I love this book. I didn't know it was a movie too... :D until now that is...

  • no its not ginny ! shes definitely looks a lot like her but shes not.

  • the artist is the guy from Pirates of the Caribbean, I think.

  • i can't wait until they put this on dvd!

  • Actually, I just look it up and that's not Bonnie Wright - she just looks exactly like her! It's Azura Skye.

  • Iris isn't ugly - she even plays Ginny in Harry Potter! I think she's pretty.

  • where did you get the movie? I'm looking for it quite a while can you tell me where to buy it?

  • Iris is way prettier than cinderella!

  • oh its not haha

  • looks just like her =!

  • Iris is Ginny right??

  • Wasn't that blonde girl in Harry Potter?

  • ruth is not only ugly but silly

  • Is that Rizzo from Grease???

  • @CamilaRox11 lol yes, it is :)

  • @CamilaRox11 I'm thinking the same thing... I also believe she plays one of the aunts in Practical Magic :D I love her.

  • none of them are really ugly to me besides what ever happen to inner beauty ????

  • In the book iris is the oldest and is only 11

  • @toric90 No in the book she is the younger one. They always talk about how she is younger then Ruth but she seems the more older. And her mother often refers to her as her younger daughter.

  • @faithtifa OOHHH yeahh now i remember ahaha

  • @toric90 and a candidate for getting married?

  • its snape at 2:58

  • Matthew Goode's wig is painful to look at. >_<

  • SILENCE!!! [I kill you]

  • when I read this..I never imagined Iris being so cute

  • Holy shoot! The indecent painter guy! He's totally the daddy guy off of Pirates of the Carribean!

  • Loved the book, so happy to find a movie version! Iris is definitely prettier than I imagined, at first I thought it was Drew Barrymore. But there is something about her face that isn't quite right

  • Iris is really pretty...

  • This is funny - they were all wet from outside rain when the mum and the daughters went knocking door to door...yet and when they were offered to come inside one of the guy's house, their clothes were all dry...so fast? How fast?

  • I don't think Iris is ugly. She's kind of cute.

  • @Jen321able i dont think they were called ugly step sisters because of how they look but in the original cinderella it was their attitude that made them ugly

  • Hey, the mother is from the movie Grease with John Trevolta.

  • I love McGregor's stories! " Fairy Tales" will never be the same, especially The Wizard of Oz!!!

  • How do Nazi doctors relate to Cinderella? Not really getting your point... are u trying to flaunt your knowledge on WW II?

  • ok WHY are they getting attacked? i can't make out the words

  • @SaltwaterAir1 I made out "murderer", and I think the mother said "potions!" when she opened the cabinet, so I assume witchcraft...?

  • BECOME A FAN OF THIS AND OTHER PERIOD DRAMA MOVIES ON FACEBOOK!! :)

  • bt....iris is pwetty! And Ruth is too! I mean, she isnt covered in warts or moles, a nd she has pretty eyes too!

  • she's not that plain at all. She's quite pretty!

  • @hithakar

    Wait...do you mean he wrote both Wicked and CoaUSS I have the book and it is called, just Confessions of an Ugly Step-Sister.

  • If you notice above it states,"based on the novel by Gregory Maguire". Maquire wrote the book" Wicked". The full name being, Wicked, Confessions of an ugly stepsister"

  • @hithakar nope, "Wicked" and "Confessions of an ugly stepsister" are two different books both written by Gregory Maguire.

  • @Eykee313 You're right, I was mistaken

  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

  • It's funny that all the dutch people suddenly speak English

  • @TheSugarDragon --- i think that because it's produced by an american, they say that english accent is somewhat general language... something like that.

  • @TheSugarDragon I just watched 'girl with a pearl earring' after reading the book. I'm Dutch myself and it feels indeed very strange reading and watching something so typically Dutch in English.

  • @TheSugarDragon

    Yeah and narrators are nearly always British so ! lol

  • fairy tales are supposed to be stories about good and evil and the good succeeding and living happily ever after. that's why people like them.

    and poor women begging for food and shelter at an artists studio and him choosing one for a model...........

    think about it

  • Where did you find the movie to upload onto youtube? Do you own the dvd? I have been looking to buy everywhere, but noone seems to have it for sale. Please let me know where I can find this movie to buy!

  • I've read the book, so many times! Now i'll be watching this everyday. lol. 

  • iris looks like bonnie wright from harry potter :D

  • ginny? and regina? im sorry i must be really ignorent

    

  • Ah! I am reading the book now and didn't know there is a movie based after it! I'm totally gonna watch this in a few days when I finish...and so far, I really pictured Iris to be plainer...she's pretty in this movie.

  • Ruth is not ugly

  • Although I loved Wicked (the book), as someone who grew up with Walt Disney's version as well as one who was abused by a female relative, I just can't enjoy this. :( Sure it is well written but I just cannot get into it.

  • Clara looks no more prettier then Iris's character Im sure if Iris had her makup and hair done like Clara she might look even prettier.....o_O Yet they Iris to be ugly or at least plain as they say "she is nothing to look at" in the movie

  • Vermeer?

    Bah I forgot who the guy who did the milk pot woman was.

    But the mother's dress certainly reminds me of that...

  • @ryuukatamura Yep, Johannes Vermeer painted The Milkmaid (only know this because of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring).

  • DO they think they are witches or something ive never herd of this movie before

  • WTF? Ruth isn't supposed to talk. I always imagined Ruth as having Down Syndrome or some other chromosomal condition when I read the book.

  • @beastraeatsall Ruth did have something wrong with her but it wasn't that bad as she is the one telling the story. I always assumed she could talk but her mother was so crazy and controlling that Ruth was to scared to say much of anything.

  • @naughtiestgirl900 it's called 'confessions of an ugly stepsister', same as the film :)

  • Hey what is the book is based on called? I'd love to read it :)

  • I laugh at movies or tv series where the people don't have a hair out of place. . ever. I was watching the series, "Roswell" and they could have been out in the deser all night and still, every hair in place. Morning, noon or evening. ha./ I'm glad to see the change in sterotypes in gendres. Step-mothers/fathers had a bad name from stories like Cinderella. I like that some modern authors have flipped the bad guys so there won't be so many monsters. The Cullans and the Harry Potters. :)

  • 'Ruth! I've been looking all over for you....'

    'Why? I've been here.'

    I love Ruth!

  • Matthew Goode is so frickin HOT!!

  • @CBoneSImWolf HELL YEA!!! haha

  • Hey Look Rizo is in the movie :)

  • first time seeing this ,never read the book shame on me

    is this fairy tale , love story also?

    I hope so <3

  • OMG!!! It's Jonathan Price, I am kinda in love with him!!!

  • I dunno who here has read the original novel of Phantom of the Opera, but doesn't Clara look like she'd make a great Christine? She looks just like her!

  • The girl who plays Iris was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

    This movie is based on an excellent book.

  • i absolutely love fairy tale "retellings" after i read wicked i got hooked. gregory m is a genius. he breathes life and dimension into the simple incomplete stories we all grew up on. he gives us grown up versions to the childhood fantasies that we loved for so long. yay :)

  • @CoacoaBean08 I see your point , and I agree, however their are not exactly "retellings", the disney cute version is the real reinterpretation of the grimm tales. oh, and i also love gregory mcguire :D

  • I love the beginning, with the narrator, the music is beautiful, love it =')

  • I like the look of Ruth She has a quiet charm and sweet smile.

  • @ruelfreak21:

    bordz? amu ja?

  • HAARLEM!!!!

  • Ahhh Matthew Goode..i love him:)

  • @sweetpoppetje24 ME to :D

  • i think "Iris" has very pretty eyes

  • I think Iris is beautiful!

  • I loved this movie when I first watched it <33 I've been trying to find it forever :] thank you

  • is that bonnie wright?!

  • Rizzo :)

  • i love tis movie...tis is my second time watching it within a month...

  • OMG I LOVE THIS BOOK! AND THERES A MOVIE??

    AWSOME!

  • Oh, I think Iris is pretty! Clara looks fake.

  • @TheBittercinema i agree

  • The pretty one in the window looks SO much like taylor swift!

  • Margarethe (the mother)is younger than I imagined when reading the book, and the Master is a bit older than I imagined.

  • Iris reminds me of Bonny Wright as Ginny!

  • I don't find them ugly...I think they're both pretty. The hairstyles that they chose for Ruth's character doesn't do her justice. I wish that they would have chosen a more flattering hairstyle that is of that era for her -even if she's supposed to be ugly.

  • How can you call these girls, including their mother, ugly? If they are considered ugly, then perhaps I'm grotesque, and should consider adapting Muslim attire, in order to prevent traumatizing children when I venture outdoors.

  • iris rreminds me a bit of ginny from harry potter crossed with drew barrymore in ever after :D

  • @01902861046 You are quite right! I thought that immediately, though rather than barrymore, I see more of dakota fanning.

  • god the art is stunning! Anyone reminded of Girl with a Pearl Earring??

  • why they burning the ladies` house?

  • i think the bit in the book where clara syas to ruth "Thing, oh thing get away from here" was really important. why do they cut the important bits out?

  • Iris sounds like that tv show of elvaniga the rat balleria.ruth seems a little adhd or something.

  • if she's ugly then what do you call me? haha...

  • I wish to be ugly like this girls ,cause if they are ugly i'm beautiful,amazing and gourgeous!!!={

  • she looks kindof like drew berrymore (sp?)

  • I think both Ruth and Iris are not bad looking. Ruth is adorable with her smile. Iris looks a little like Drew, but not too much. Movie has a lot of actors I recognize. Wish I had read the book before watching this. Still want to read it.

  • Its Wierd Cus My Name Is Iris

  • RIZZO!!!!

  • sad,, ruth is supposed to be sort of special, and mostly mute. oh well i guess there cant be that many similarities to the book

  • i think iris is beautiful.

  • so this is before or after they meet cinderella?

  • In my opinion Iris is average looking, if not pretty. I think the only reason shes called an 'ugly' stepsister is because any bit of her physical appearance that you might have found appealing is completely overshadowed by Cinderella's extraordinart good looks.

  • what terrible acting

  • WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!??!?!!?!?

  • I dunno if anyone here has read the original novel of Phantom of the Opera, but Jenna Harrison here looks like she would make a proper Christine.

  • She's not supposed to be ugly. This is just like WICKED. It's supposed to be the injustice of fairytale "villains". It's trying to say that the stepmother wasn't really wicked and the stepsisters weren't really ugly (just because Ruth isn't blonde and wearing a pound of makeup, doesn't mean she isn't pretty). You can't judge the film if you haven't read the book!

  • @MJMcGreg926 you have described it perfectly!! she isn't supposed to be ugly. Elphaba wasn't ugly other people just perceived her as being ugly because they didn't like her. elphaba was actually quite beautiful and fiyero noticed!

  • @rbain007 Thank you. It's so much like real life too. Not every woman looks like a supermodel but that doesn't mean that they are not beautiful people in their own way.

  • @MJMcGreg926 It's written by the same GUY who wrote wicked. . . dear lord...

  • @marchingcellist I know. I own both books. I was trying to say that he writes his stories in the same way: telling the story from the POV of the "villain".

  • @MJMcGreg926

    but the stepmother was evil

  • @MJMcGreg926 I read the book, and I go by it. Its the true story!!! I didn't know they made a flim into it! Read the book twice. Cinderella just got lucky.

  • @BrownAugust1987 Yes she did. :)

  • @MJMcGreg926 ok i do get what your saying but in some scenes ruth looks terebly ugly

  • @MJMcGreg926 ok i do get what your saying but in some scenes ruth looks

     ugly

  • @eibhlinn1 Well, aren't their days when you glance at yourself in the mirror and think that you look horrible? I do sometimes. She's not meant to be gorgeous 24/7. Beauty and ugliness is 50/50.

  • @MJMcGreg926 In reality the stepmother and sisters were most likely jealouse. You might be thinking, "so what?" I've seen peoples lives ruined by jealouse indiviuduals.

  • @MJMcGreg926 There is no injustice to the villains in fairy tales there are people out there that are that evil&worse.Did you know during WWII "doctors" did mind control techniques on twin babies splitting there personalities into many.The affect was several personalities that did different things when they where older.Some had 1 for child prostitution, 1 for being an assassin, &/or1 for being a spy.Did you know 1 such "dr." was brought here to the U.S. to use his evil on unsuspecting Americans?

  • @PaileFace Sweetie, what he's trying to say is that the "villains" described in fairy tales may not have been actually evil. But, since they are the antagonists, many people believe that they are, in fact, evil. The whole point of the book and the movie is to show that there is another side to the story that isn't normally told. Now, I'm not saying that the things that you have described aren't terrible, but I'm pretty sure that insane Doctors from WWII aren't usually featured in Fairy Tales...

  • @PaileFace I never said there wasn't evil in the world. I know there are some really sick people out there. I'm saying that the "injustice of fairytale villians" is what the AUTHOR is trying to say, not me. I'm sorry if you misunderstood.

  • Matthew Goode!!!!!!!! HUNK :) sexxxxyyyy

  • i hate how they portrayed this movie. not dark enough.

  • awww ruth is adorable and soo innocent! My poor girl...

  • If she really was ugly this movie would be unbearable. By part 4 you'd be wishing she gets hit by a carriage.

  • @MaximilianMontesa lol true, very true. =)

  • @MaximilianMontesa Are you saying you find it impossible to feel empathy or kind feelings towards someone who doesn't happen to be your idea of 'attractive'? If that is the case then I feel very sorry for you! Is everyone in your life beautiful or do you just watch too many Hollywood movies?

    I think movie & TV producers need to give the public more credit. We know what real people look like and we're not all as shallow as they seem to be.

  • It's Matthew Goode!!!!!! ^.^

  • she isnt supposed to be ugly. It is just taking the discription from the normal story. Basically it is supposed to be about the "ugly stepsisters" side of the story. as in she isnt ugly and she isnt mean.

  • What always upset me as a child is that the fact the 'ugly' sisters were ALWAYS the oldest and the youngest were pretty and kind! Every single story its the same. 

  • I don't see any of the girls as ugly in this. lol. THOUGH, I think everyone is beautiful in their own way. o.o but this just isn't nice.

  • this is supposed to be a rather well-done adaptation of the book by Gregory Maguire, who's famous for penning the book the musical Wicked is based upon. granted there were some things that couldn't be done as in the books, like how the sisters are under marrying age when they flee England, and other truly little things like that, but the pure truths of the book do make it into this.

    thank you for posting this...

  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  • if iris were ugly do you think you would watch it? i think not, the fact that she is not ugly draws ones attention to watch it. If she was ugly one would not stand to watch it. in life people don't like to watch ugly people.

  • It's funny how smushy the crowd is. Worse than Mannhatten.

  • yeah i geuss that doesn't make any sense

  • !!! I have been looking for this movie, anywhere, for years. I watched this when it first came out and fell in love with gregory maguire through this movie.

  • I love how how you put a simple plain girl in the right place, and she becomes beautiful. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One person sees one thing another person sees something quite different.

  • iris isnt ugly shes just plain

    margarethe just stuck it in her mind because shes manipulative

  • she's not even a ounce of ugly. She's Beautiful!! wow this movie is total wrong in the ugly part.

  • i love this movie it is really good it is one of my favorite movies to watch i don't think Iris is ugly i think she is just plain thats all.

  • I loved this book!

  • I had no idea there was a movie of this! I'm in the middle of reading the book again. Well, there goes my night's sleep! Woo!

  • Wow, can you believe that Casper was the lead man in "Leap Year"?

  • Guys that's the whole point shes not ugly! It's to challenge your ideas on fairy tales! Gregory Maguire (who wrote the book) also wrote Wicked Elphaba isn't ugly the only thing that makes her different is her greenness but because we have been told different that's what we expect.

  • Shucks, I was hoping this movie would be more like the book. The book was awesome to read, though I'm hardly a book worm, this author got me reading again. Damn they should remake this movie

  • i dont think the sisters ugiy

  • i think she is supposed to be more plain than ugly.

    and rizzo !!!

  • @kellyhrtsacting89 I agree. She isn't considered to be model/gorgeous pretty. She's pretty in her own way, but more plain or regular then her stepsister.

  • If your actually....I don't know READ THE BOOK, Iris isn't ugly. She's just plain

  • Society & customer demands want handsome & pretty faces on screen. So don't blame the movie networks blame the public & society. Movie biz works just like any company... it caters towards customer demands & what sells.

  • Stop complaining about whether the actress is ugly or not. It's not like you're paying to watch the movie nor is it your money that went into making it. Sheesh! And it's not only American movie networks who are hiring pretty actresses to grace their films... take a look at the booming Asian movie industry & everywhere else. Admittedly, I personally don't agree with the continuous marriage of beauty & movie biz but that's what makes money.

  • the movie seem's ver interesting yal...well thanx 4 posting it =)

  • Stockard Channing.. she played Rizzo is Grease! I knew it was her .. lolz

  • So what do most people consider to be evil?

  • Basically she a bitch with a ugly personality,

  • i read the book!

  • i loved this movie!!! thanks =]

  • shes not hollywood gorgeous but she is very pretty

  • its heck from imagine me and you! anyone? anyone? :)

  • ruth is like the female version of waldo. where's waldo