Eminently quotable, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride—with a screenplay by William Goldman based off his own book—combines slapstick humor with situational comedy and satire in a way few other films have ever achieved. No other filmic attempt at deconstructing the fairy tale has so successfully struck a balance between parodying the “wuv, tru wuv” we attempt to achieve through our own machinations and True Love which transcends our plans and sometimes even our own deaths. All of this framed in the context of a grandfather reading to his grandson—a simple, but profound example of true love indeed.
—Darryl A. Armstrong