The Princess Diaries
Anne Hathaway has been made over onscreen a number of times (shaving her head as Fantine in Les Misérables and going from frumpy to fab as Andy in The Devil Wears Prada), but her most memorable makeover has to be in her debut film role as Mia in The Princess Diaries. Paolo (Larry Miller) breaks not only a hairbrush, but also Mia’s nerdy glasses to turn Anne into the doe-eyed princess we know today.
Love & Basketball
“I just want you to enjoy being beautiful,” says the mom of tough and sporty Monica (Sanaa Lathan) as she and a makeup palette-wielding older sister conspire to turn Monica into a glam girl before the spring dance. And enjoy it she does in a steamy scene with a young Omar Epps.
She’s All That
Freddie Prinze Jr. takes on a bet to turn the most unpopular girl in school, Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook), into prom queen in six weeks. Who can forget Laney coming down the stairs to Sixpence None the Richer’s “Kiss Me” as Anna Paquin presents “the new, not improved, but different Laney Boggs”?
