What a Girl Wants

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for fans of teen romantic comedy; directed by Dennie Gordon.
• Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth and Kelly Preston star, a remake of The Reluctant Debutante.
• About 1 hour 45 minutes, light and easy to watch.

Synopsis

What a Girl Wants is a 2003 American teen comedy film directed by Dennie Gordon and written by Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler. Based on the 1955 play The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas-Home, it is the second adaptation for the screen of this work and stars Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, and Jonathan Pryce. The film tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who goes to the United Kingdom to meet the father she never knew.

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Director & cast

• D

  Dennie Gordon

  Director

• A

  Amanda Bynes

• C

  Colin Firth

• K

  Kelly Preston

• O

  Oliver James

• E

  Eileen Atkins

• A

  Anna Chancellor

• J

  Jonathan Pryce

• S

  Sylvia Syms