The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel The Princess Bride, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. It was first released in the United States on September 25, 1987, and was well received by critics at the time, but was only a modest box office success. Over time the film has become a cult film.
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The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, 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 The Princess Bride, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The film essentially preserves the novel’s narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson. It was first released in the United States on September 25, 1987, and was well received by critics at the time, but was only a modest box office success. Over time the film has become a cult film. In 2016, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry, being deemed as \”culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\”. The film also won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It is number 50 on the Bravo’s \”100 Funniest Movies\”, number 88 on The American Film Institute’s \”AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Passions\” list of the 100 greatest film love stories, and 46 in Channel 4’s 50 Greatest Comedy Films list. In the film, a beautiful young woman named Buttercup lives on a farm in the fictional kingdom of Florin. Whenever she instructs the farmhand Westley, he complies and answers, ‘As you wish’ She eventually realizes that he truly means ‘I love you’ and that she loves him in return.
Westley leaves to seek his fortune so they can marry, but his ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is infamous for never leaving survivors, and Westley is believed dead. Five years later, Buttercup is kidnapped by three outlaws: a short Sicilian boss named Vizzini, a giant from Greenland named Fezzik, and a Spanish fencing master named Inigo Montoya, who seeks revenge against a six-fingered man who killed his father. The outlaws are pursued separately by a masked man in black and Prince Hum perdinck with a complement of soldiers. When Buttercup correctly guesses that he is the Dread pirate Roberts, she becomes enraged at him for killing Westley. She throws herself into the gorge after him and they are reunited. Buttercup agrees to return with Humperinck if he releases Westley; he promises to do so, but he secretly orders his sadistic vizier, Count Rugen, to take Westley to his torture chamber, known as the Pit of Despair. Inigo decides that they need Westley’s body and brings him to a healer, Max Miracle, whom he has not met before. When Inigo and Fezzk reunite, they find the body of Westley in the forest of Guilder Guilder, and Inigo tells Inigo about the thieves arrested in the nearby forest.
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