Film Analysis

A Cinderella Story

OW: Sam and her Dad are the best of friends. They do everything together, it's just the two of them. Until her father meets Fiona and gets remarried.
CALL: A huge earthquake hits the San Bernadino valley and her father is killed while trying to save Fiona. Sam is left with just her step-mom and two step-sisters. She is forced to work at her father's diner as a bus girl. In the mean time she meets a boy through a chat room with secret pen names and they talk and text but have never met each other. The second call comes when "Nomad" (or Austin Aimes) wants to meet Sam ("Princeton Girl") at the High School's dance.
REFUSAL: At first, she decides that she's not going to go to the dance because she has nothing to wear and her evil step mom is making her stay home. However, she decides to go. When sam goes to the dance, she disguises herself so "Nomad" won't know its her since she feels inadequite to be with anyone. Especailly when she finds out that it's Austin Aimes - the most popular boy in school. She leaves the dance in order to avoid embarrassment.
MENTOR: Ronda, a friend of her father and a lady she works with at the Diner acts as a motherly figure to Sam and helps her through things.
TESTS, ALLIES, ENEMIES: The three most popular girls in school who one of which likes Austin decides to reveal Sam's secrect identity.
APPROACH: Austin tries to confront Sam about the whole thing but chickens out and never talks to her.
ORDEAL: Everyone at school makes fun of Sam for thinking that she actually had a chance with Austin and for making up a secret identity. So one night before one of the schools football games, Sam decides to stand up for herself and go into the locker room and chew out Austin saying that she's the one who's been hurt and that it's been her all along, but he's the one she feels sorry for.
REWARD: During the middle of the football game, Austin realizes that if he doesn't do something that he would loose her so he stops in the middle of the game and runs to the stands and kisses her and tells her he's sorry.
THE ROAD BACK: They work everything out. Sam and Austin get together and forget their differences and remember why they fell in love in the first place.
RETURN: Sam stands up to her step mom and step sisters and moves out to college with Austin, and they live happily ever after!