---
title: 'What a Girl Wants (2003)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Dennie Gordon'
released: '2003-04-04'
runtime_minutes: 105
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/what-a-girl-wants-2003'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286788/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# What a Girl Wants (2003)

2003 · 105 min · Drama, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

What a Girl Wants is a 2003 American teen comedy film directed by Dennie Gordon and written by Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler. Based on the 1955 play The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas-Home, it is the second adaptation for the screen of this work and stars Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, and Jonathan Pryce. The film tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who goes to the United Kingdom to meet the father she never knew.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Dennie Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennie-gordon)
- **Screenplay:** [William Douglas-Home](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-douglas-home), [Elizabeth Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-chandler)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Rupert Gregson-Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/rupert-gregson-williams)
- **Producer:** [Joel Silver](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-silver), [Denise Di Novi](https://cinepixo.com/people/denise-di-novi), [Bill Gerber](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-gerber)
- **Director of Photography:** [Andrew Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-dunn)
- **Editor:** [Charles McClelland](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-mcclelland)

## Cast

- [Oliver James](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-james)
- [Roger Ashton-Griffiths](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-ashton-griffiths)
- [Kelly Preston](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-preston)
- [Eileen Atkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/eileen-atkins)
- [Colin Firth](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-firth)
- [Amanda Bynes](https://cinepixo.com/people/amanda-bynes)
- [James Greene](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-greene)
- [Sylvia Syms](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvia-syms)
- [Christina Cole](https://cinepixo.com/people/christina-cole)
- [Anna Chancellor](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-chancellor)
- [Steven Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-anderson)
- [Tara Summers](https://cinepixo.com/people/tara-summers)
- [David Gyasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-gyasi)
- [Stanley Townsend](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-townsend)
- [Jonathan Pryce](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-pryce)

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Official site: http://www.whatagirlwantsmovie.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/what-a-girl-wants-2003
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1123621); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.