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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Penelope is a 2006 Romantic Comedy film directed by Mark Palansky with a wide release in 2008. It stars Christina Ricci and James McAvoy as the romantic leads, as well as Peter Dinklage, Simon Woods, Catherine O'Hara, Richard E. Grant, Reese Witherspoon (who received primary billing, despite a relatively small supporting role), and Burn Gorman, Nick Frost and Russell Brand in minor roles.Loosely based off the legend of the Pig-Faced Woman, the film is a reconstruction of the classic Fairy Tale. It follows the story a child of wealthy parents cursed with the face of a pig until she is accepted by "one of her own", which both she and her parents interpret to mean a marriage to somebody of her own social class. She is kept in seclusion in her parent's house her entire life, her very existence a secret after her parents faked her death as an infant in order to avoid the paparazzi, and she is trained in the arts and sciences to make her the perfect prospective bride. After seven years of fruitless searching for a blue-blood suitor who will remain in the same room for even a moment after seeing her pig face, Penelope (Christina Ricci) has resigned herself to being in this state forever and she (and her father) believe that it is time to move on with her life and accept the fact that this curse might never be broken. When one final suitor (James McAvoy) seems to form a genuine emotional attachment to Penelope, only to also refuse to marry her after she reveals herself to him, Penelope flees her home and begins to live her life for the first time in the real world, making friends and enjoying the world which she had only ever seen through the windows of her room.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })After being produced in 2006 the film was stuck in The Shelf of Movie Languishment, unable to find a distributor for several years after the movie had been completed. Eventually, Summit Entertainment purchased distribution rights in the United States for a 2008 release.
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 Ambiguous Time Period: Not only do cell/mobile phones and the internet apparently not exist, it's questionable whether answering machines even exist given the fact several characters are shown surrounded by tons of phones. Notably, said phones are all corded, and Penelope has no trouble finding payphones to use. Something of a plot point is made of Penelope's dowry, a practise no longer in play in modern day America (at least, officially, though, there might still be some cases of a form of Nobility Marries Money quietly happening). The clothing, however, is distinctively 1990s/2000s, credit card usage is apparently common, and things such as shatterproof glass exist.
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