Question: where does a cinderella story take place?
Answer: What is says – a retelling of the classic Cinderella tale, transposed to the San Fernando Valley. Little of the film was shot in the Valley though. The house that Sam (Hilary Duff) shares with her mother Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge) and her bitchy sisters is in Altadena, north of the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena.