A Simple Wish (1997)

Directors

Michael Ritchie

Cast

Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Amanda Plummer, Francis Capra, Kathleen Turner, Ruby Dee, Teri Garr, Jonathan Hadary, Deborah Odell

The story

Carriage driver Oliver Greening aspires to perform on Broadway and, despite an outstanding audition for a new musical based on A Tale of Two Cities, he loses out to the seasoned Tony Sable, who is considered more bankable than the unknown Oliver. Later that night, Anabel, Oliver's young daughter, does not convince her brother Charlie that fairy godmothers exist, and after they fall asleep, she awakens to find Murray, a male fairy godmother, in her room. Murray, who is treated with disdain for being a man in a female-dominated profession, agrees to grant Anabel's wish that her father get the part so that her family will not have to move to…

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