I am already a fan of Sarah Strohmeyer’s work but “The Cinderella Pact” was not her best work. That being said, the adaptation of this mediocre book makes for a less than mediocre movie. The story is about a less than model thin girl who transforms herself into a self-help guru. The role of Nola Devlin is written for a plus sized girl, so instead of finding one, they just put some Hollywood twig in a fat suit. This is just disrespectful to plus sized women everywhere. The fact that her life only improves after she becomes Hollywood thin and glamoured is also a slap in the face. The message of this made for TV debacle is that fat girls can’t be happy unless they get a skinny girl makeover. And the “I love Lucy” premise is just too over done and doesn’t make the leap from page to screen smoothly. Filmmakers must be very careful when adapting chick-lit books to movies as many of the plots can be very silly, trite and too crazy to even seem real.
