Before the wedding, she is kidnapped by three outlaws: a small Sicilian man named Vizzini, a giant from Greenland named Fezzik, and a Spanish fencing master named Inigo Montoya, who seeks revenge against a six-fingered man who murdered his father. When the Dread Pirate Roberts attacks his ship, Westley is presumed dead.įive years later, Buttercup is unwillingly betrothed to Florin's Prince Humperdinck. They fall in love and Westley leaves to seek his fortune overseas so they can marry. Whenever she tells farmhand Westley to do something, he always answers, 'As you wish' (his way of saying that he loves her).

The tale concerns Buttercup, a young woman living on a farm in the fictional kingdom of Florin during a feudal-like period. Plot Ī grandfather reads a novel to his sick grandson, who initially dismisses the story. In 2016, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant'. The film also won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

The film is number 50 on the Bravo's '100 Funniest Movies', number 88 on The American Film Institute's (AFI) ' AFI's 100 Years.100 Passions' list of the 100 greatest film love stories, and 46 in Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Films list. After only having modest success at the box office at first, it has over time become a cult film and been considered as one of the best films of the 1980s, and one of Reiner's best works. The film was first released in the United States on September 25, 1987, and was well received by critics at the time. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest.

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