A north star for any kid sick home from school, The Princess Bride is the film adaptation of William Goldman's much lengthier titled novel The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version. Both do, however, contain the same framing device, although time may have stripped the question of why Columbo is reading to Kevin from The Wonder Years for younger viewers. The picaresque story read and played out involves a fairy tale of endangered love, cliffs of insanity, mithridatism, shrieking eels, rodents of unusual size, and Andre the Giant.
Professor Pfinklepfunder's $1 Sunday Family Films
Directed by Rob Reiner
With Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright
Rated PG, 98 minutes.
Purchase tickets online or at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center box office window.