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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: THE UGLY STEPSISTER review
Description: In which the Mister joins me in reviewing THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025), from writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt. In this macabre and dark reimagining of the Cinderella story, a young woman named Elvira (Lea Myren) becomes obsessed with winning the affection of a shallow prince to save her family from sudden poverty but more so because of her naivety in believing she loves him. Encouraged by her ruthless, social-climbing mother, Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp), Elvira undergoes a series of gruesome 18th-century cosmetic procedures and extreme physical transformations to compete with her naturally beautiful stepsister, Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss). As the royal...