The Princess Bride (1987)

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Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair. - True love has never been a snap.

Directed By Rob Reiner Rob Reiner Starring Cary Elwes Cary Elwes  •  Mandy Patinkin Mandy Patinkin  •  Chris Sarandon Chris Sarandon  •  Christopher Guest Christopher Guest  •  Robin Wright Robin Wright Genres Adventure Comedy  •  Adventure  •  Based-on-20th-Century-Literature  •  Comedy  •  Fairy Tales and Legends  •  Family-Oriented Adventure  •  Family-Oriented Comedy  •  Family-Oriented Fantasy  •  Family  •  Fantasy Adventure  •  Fantasy Comedy  •  Fantasy  •  Revenge Film  •  Romance  •  Romantic Adventure  •  Romantic Comedy  •  Romantic Fantasy  •  Swashbuckler Studios &
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The Criterion Collection  •  AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions  •  They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?  •  1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die  •  Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award Winning  •  Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film Winning  •  Alamo Drafthouse 100  •  Time Out: London's 100 Best Comedy Movies  •  Time Out: New York's 100 Best Movies of All Time  •  Writers Guild of America's 101 Funniest Screenplays  •  Writers Guild of America's 101 Greatest Screenplays
Release Info 1987-09-25T00:00:00Z September 25, 1987
Color  •  98 minutes PG Rated PG
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Comments (11)

 
shelshy123

shelshy123 on 6/5/2011 Reply  · 

I dont like this movie

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JRM

JRM on 8/27/2012 Reply  · 

A classic.

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Caesar

Caesar on 4/17/2013 Reply  · 

INCONCEIVABLE!!!

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Eagleskywalker87

Eagleskywalker87 on 5/21/2017 Reply  · 

Don't understand the love for this movie. Bad acting, cheap set pieces and costumes, unfunny jokes, stiff dialogue and a clichéd and awkward love story. It's one of the worst films I've ever seen in fact. Is it something you had to see at the time of its release?

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Gpkap

Gpkap on 7/20/2017 Reply  · 

My favourite film of all time.

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cine_matic

cine_matic on 7/29/2018 Reply  · 

Possibly one of the most overrated movies of all-time.

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ear

ear on 11/6/2019 Reply  · 

The most overrated movie of all time.

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zvazda

zvazda on 10/21/2021 Reply  · 

My buddy oraymw and I chatted about this on our podcast. He historically loves it, I historically hate it!

Check it out here: https://zvazda.podbean.com/e/ssn1-ep-3-the-princess-bride/

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KipDynamite

KipDynamite on 9/26/2022 Reply  · 

Dude really plugged his podcast in the comments

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