Meg Cabot Movies
A teenager is torn between her desire to please her mother and following her own ambitions in this family-friendly comedy drama. Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) is a high-school student who has a keen mind for math and looks to be on the fast track to Harvard, which is just the way her mother (Joan Cusack) wants it. However, Casey also has a dream of becoming a competitive ice skater, which is not a popular notion with either Casey's mom or her school's clique of aspiring skaters, led by the egocentric Gen (Hayden Panettiere). However, one day at the rink Casey wins the attention of Tina (Kim Cattrall), a former skating champion who now trains her daughter and is trying to live down an incident that grounded her career on the ice. Tina thinks Casey has what it takes to be a champ, but neither Gen nor Casey's mother are happy with this news, leaving Casey and Tina to go it alone, though Casey soon wins the emotional support of Teddy (Trevor Blumas), Gen's handsome older brother. Ice Princess also features champion skater Michelle Kwan in a small role as herself, doing television commentary at a skating event. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, (more)
- 2003
Based on a series of novels by Meg Cabot, the weekly cop series 1-800-Missing was a workaday police drama with a psychic -- and feminist -- slant. Gloria Reuben, formerly a regular on ER and The Agency, starred as ambitious FBI agent Brooke Haslett, assigned to the Bureau's missing-persons division. Much to her surprise, Brooke's "find" record improved immensely when she began working in concert with Jess Mastriani (Caterina Scorsone), a young woman who had developed psychic powers after being struck by lightning. (In the books, Jess was a teenager; in the series, she was 21.) Adhering to the tradition established by The X-Files, the pragmatic and skeptical Brooke did not always see eye to eye with the ethereal true believer Jess, but one could not argue about the successful results of their teaming. 1-800-Missing debuted August 2, 2003, on the Lifetime network. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
This teen comedy from Disney is based on a popular novel by Meg Cabot and directed by Garry Marshall. Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is a teenage klutz who's openly mocked by the popular Lana Thomas (pop singer Mandy Moore). In fact, Mia's only friend at her exclusive prep school is the socially outcast Lilly (Heather Matarazzo). Mia's life takes a dramatic turn, however, when her mom announces that her late biological father was in actuality the crown prince of a small European nation, Genovia. Now Mia is the sole heir to the throne, and her grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews) wants to tutor the awkward teen in royal behavior. It's a daunting task given Mia's lax table manners, poise, and hair care, but the girl perseveres with some makeover help from her grandmother's security chief Hector Elizondo) and a style expert (Larry Miller). In the meantime, Mia's romantic affections are torn between the handsome, popular Josh (Erik Von Detten) and the more appropriate Michael (Robert Schwartzman), who also happens to be Lilly's brother. The Princess Diaries is the second film from Whitney Houston's production shingle after the television version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, (more)
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