Mirror Mirror is a 2012 American comedy fantasy film based on the fairy tale "Snow White" collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is directed by Tarsem Singh and stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, and Sean Bean. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design.
Plot
Snow White's mother died in child birth, and her father, the King (Sean Bean), marries Clementianna (Julia Roberts),
the most beautiful woman in the land and raises Snow White. One day,
the king leaves to fight a great evil that has invaded the land but
never returns. Queen Clementianna rules in his absence and keeps Snow
White in the palace.
Ten years later, Snow White (Lily Collins)
having turned eighteen, desires to see her kingdom. Defying Queen
Clementianna's orders, she leaves the palace. Arriving at a forest, she
meets Prince Andrew Alcott (Armie Hammer) who has been robbed by thieving dwarfs. She and the Prince are drawn to each other
but go their separate ways. Snow White arrives in the town, and finds
the once-happy townfolk are destitute due to Queen Clementianna's greed.
Meanwhile, Prince Alcott finds his way to the palace. Queen
Clementianna realizes he comes from a wealthy kingdom, and throws a ball
to woo the Prince to solve her financial problems.
Snow White secretly attends the ball, planning to ask the prince to
help her restore the kingdom. Queen Clementianna notices them dancing
and orders her manservant Brighton (Nathan Lane) to take the princess into the forest and feed her to the Beast (Frank Welker)
that lives there. Brighton takes Snow White to the forest, but he
releases her and urges her to run. Snow White flees the Beast and
collapses at the door to the Seven Dwarfs' house. She wakes up to find the dwarfs Grimm (Danny Woodburn), Butcher (Martin Klebba), Wolf (Sebastian Saraceno), Napoleon (Jordan Prentice), Half Pint (Mark Povinelli), Grub (Joe Gnoffo), and Chuck (Ronald Lee Clark).
Queen Clementianna levies another tax among the starving people to
pay for the parties she throws for Prince Alcott. Brighton collects the
taxes, but, on the way back to the palace, the dwarfs rob Brighton and
steal the money. Snow White sneaks away to return the money. The
townspeople and the Town Magistrate
(Alex Ivanovici) are overjoyed to have their money back and Snow White
lets the Dwarfs take credit for it, earning them the people's acceptance
and gratitude.
Meanwhile, Queen Clementianna informs Alcott that Snow White is dead.
When the Prince finds out that the bandits have robbed Brighton, he
goes after them, unaware of the awful things the Queen has done. In the
forest, Alcott discovers that Snow White is alive and in league with the
bandits. Each believing the other to be in the wrong, Snow White and
Alcott duel. Alcott returns to the Palace defeated and informs the Queen
that Snow White is alive.
Queen Clementianna goes to her Magic Mirror, within which lives her reflection, the Mirror Queen (Lisa Roberts Gillan).
Displeased that Brighton had lied about Snow White's death, Queen
Clementianna has the Mirror Queen turn Brighton into a cockroach (which
was for a short time). The Queen requests a love potion so she can make
the Prince fall in love with her. The Mirror Queen repeatedly warns
Queen Clementianna that there is a price for using dark magic, but Queen
Clementianna refuses to listen. The potion, however, turns out to be a
'puppy love' potion and the Prince becomes devoted to her like a puppy
dog. Under this spell, the Prince agrees to marry Queen Clementianna.
She then uses dark magic to create two giant wooden puppets
in the forest and uses them to try and kill Snow White and the Dwarfs.
Snow White is able to cut the strings of the puppets and break the
spell.
Snow White and the Dwarfs crash the royal wedding and capture the
Prince before Queen Clementianna and Brighton arrive. Back in the
forest, the still-cursed Prince wishes to return to the Queen. Snow
White kisses Alcott and the spell is broken.
Snow White encounters Queen Clementianna who reveals that she can
control the Beast that has been plaguing the forest and sends it after
Snow White. Prince Alcott tries to save Snow White, and after the
struggle, the Beast captures the princess. However, the Beast hesitates
in killing her and Snow White sees that it wears a necklace with a moon
charm on it similar to the one the Queen wears. She cuts the chain with
her father's dagger and the Beast suddenly becomes engulfed in light.
Queen Clementianna begins to age, and the Mirror Queen says this is her
consequence for using dark magic. The Beast turns out to be Snow White's
father who has no memory of the last ten years.
Grateful to Alcott for his assistance, the king agrees to let him marry Snow White. During the wedding celebration, a crone
in a hooded robe appears and offers Snow White an apple (which is
poisoned) as a wedding gift. At first, Snow White accepts the gift, but
as she is about to bite it, she realizes that the crone is Clementianna.
Then Snow White pulls out her knife and cuts a piece from the apple and
gives it to Clementianna, she says that sometimes you must admit that
you've been defeated. Accepting defeat, Clementianna takes the apple as
the Mirror House shatters upon the Mirror Queen while she declares that
it was Snow White's story all along.
The film's epilogue reveals what happened to the Dwarfs: Grimm
becomes a teacher again and writes a book of fairy tales, Napoleon
becomes a hairdresser, Wolf "returned to his pack", Half-Pint finds a
girlfriend, Grub just eats, Butcher becomes a flyweight champion, and
Chuck joins the royal circus. Now they can live happily ever after just
like any other fairytale.
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