In "Ever After", Drew Barrymore portrays the character Cinderella, who in the beginning of this movie is called Danielle. In the very beginning, it shows how Danielle's father died and how she went off to live with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. In "Cinderella", both of the stepsisters are wicked, but in "Ever After", her sister Jacqueline is not so wicked and usually sides with Danielle. In "Ever After", Jacqueline is the not so pretty and quiet sister and Marguerite is the loud obnoxious pretty one.

One similarity is that in both movies, Cinderella and Danielle are servants to their stepmother and stepsisters. They are also not allowed to eat with them, only serve them. In "Ever After", Danielle's only friends are the other servants of the house, this is similar to how

In "Cinderella", the stepmother tries to make sure that one of her daughters is chosen for a wife by the prince at the ball. At first she tells Cinderella that she can go also even though it's obvious that she doesn't want her to go, the same is true in both movies. In "Ever After", the stepmother feels that her daughter Marguerite is prettier and more worthy of the crown, so she puts more effort into trying to get the prince to chose her. Before the ball, Marguerite kisses up to the royal family to reassure that she gets chosen.

Henry eventually finds Danielle and apologizes to her. After they clear up the whole situation, Henry tells Danielle that he wants to have her for his wife. She accepts his apology and they decide to get married.

In "Cinderella", Cinderella doesn't meet the prince before the ball, she doesn't even really expect to be going to the ball. In "Ever After", Danielle meets the prince in a confrontation where the prince was actually stealing one of their horses. Danielle starts pegging him with apples, but just as she realizes that he is the prince, she kneels down before him. She apologizes, but the prince is lenient and says he will not punish her. He also gives her money to keep quiet about the whole situation.

At the end of "Cinderella", the prince and Cinderella live happily ever after. In the end of "Ever After", the wicked stepmother is called to the palace. She doesn't know that Danielle and the prince are married. The king and queen question the stepmother of lying to the queen. They tell her that if she doesn't tell the truth, she will be killed. She confesses that she lied to the queen about Danielle. Just then Danielle comes in dressed as the princess she has become, and her stepmother kneels before her. The only punishment that she gives her is the punishment that she had to go thr

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