Cary Elwes (Robin Hood-men in tights), Robin Wright (Forrest Gump), Peter Falk (Columbo), Fred Savage (The Wonder Years), Andre the Giant, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest and many more.
The story follows the lives of Wesley and his one true love, Buttercup (my word, were these bad names, but that's as may be), parted by sea, pirates, an evil prince, giants, swashbucklers, R.U.S's (watch and you'll find out), magic, fire swamps and death, the pair must fight for their lurve.
Fantasy films, to be successful, must inundate, saturate and generally drench the audience with all and every manner of fun adventure tool at its disposal...The Princess Bride captures imagination and dream in one fowl swoop and deliberately never releases the viewer.
Directed by Rob Reiner in 1987 on a $15,000,000 budget, the film, based on the William Goldman novel, more than doubled it's costs at the commercial box office. Given the films cult status, the novel the film was based on has had a new lease of life, selling well in the film/music chains HMV and Fopp.
Fun Fact: Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) provided the music and the film was shot entirely on location between Ireland and England (Bakewell and Castleton-I used to go there all the time as a kid, I even fell down the same hill that Wesley did...awesome!).
Ooooh, another- Andre the Giant had had back surgery prior to the film, so all his "carrying" scenes were faked!
I'm more than a little flabbergasted to learn Andre had a back double, but perhaps that's why that pansey Wesley was able to defeat him a bit.
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