Drew Barrymore: 5 Awesome Performance And 5 That Sucked

1. Danielle de Barbarac - Ever After (1998)

Ever After - also known as Ever After: A Cinderella Story - updates the classic fairy tale by discarding the fantastical elements of the original story and reimagining it as historical fiction. In the process this gave Drew Barrymore the scope to break free from her child-star image for good. Barrymore plays Danielle De Barbarac, the daughter of a wealthy widower who finds herself relegated to the status of a servant after her father dies. After posing as a Lady she gets the attention of Prince Henry (Dougray Scott) but has to contend with the machinations of her stepmother Rodmilla (Anjelica Huston). Director Andy Tennant flips the Cinderella premise on its head and delivers what some described as a post-feminist interpretation, and Barrymore's layered performance works to bring out this new complexity, reworking the character as a strong-willed heroine more palatable to a modern audience's ideas of gender.