   ever after: a cinderella story is a 1998 film inspired by the fairy tale cinderella, directed by andy tennant and starring drew barrymore, anjelica huston and dougray scott. the screenplay is written by tennant, susannah grant, and rick parks. the original music score is composed by george fenton. the film's closing theme song "put your arms around me" is performed by the rock band texas. the usual pantomime and comic/supernatural elements are removed and the story is instead treated as historical fiction, set in renaissance-era france. it is often seen as a modern, post-feminism interpretation of the cinderella myth. == plot == in the 19th century, grande dame marie therese summons the brothers grimm to her palace, where the brothers discuss their interpretation of the cinderella story and notice a painting displayed in the room. marie shows the brothers a glass slipper and tells them the story of danielle de barbarac, the true story of cinderella. in 16th-century france, auguste de barbarac, father of 8-year-old danielle, marries rodmilla de ghent, a wealthy baroness with two young daughters, but dies of a heart attack shortly afterward. this causes baroness to envy auguste's affection for danielle and treat her miserably. one of her stepsisters, marguerite, abuses her while the other stepsister, jacqueline, keeps quiet. by the time danielle is 18, she has been reduced to a servant in her own house, raising bees and crops on the manor, and clinging to her father's last gift, a copy of thomas more's [[
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