There are few movies more memorable, more quotable, and more loved than The Princess Bride. Rob Reiner’s bizarre fairytale remains one of the high-water marks of ’80s cinema—or, really, cinema in general—and the pop cultural fascination will most likely continue to live on for as long as there are children and young-at-heart adults.
Though it wasn’t the runaway success you might imagine given its continued acclaim, The Princess Bride was one of the first major films to find and grow its audience thanks to the home video market. For thirty years now, kids and adults alike have fallen under the spell of the swashbuckling comedy-romance that launched Cary Elwes (Sugar Mountain) and Robin Wright (House of Cards) into stardom, reveling at the absurd wit of the dialogue, the lovable characters, and timeless story. As perfect a film as it might be, that doesn’t mean it ...
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