Directed by: Tarsem Singh Written by: Marc Klein, Jason Keller Produced by: Ryan Kavanaugh, Bernie Goldmann, Brett Ratner Production year: 2011 Original release: March 30, 2012 (USA) Running time: 1 hour, 48 minutes Other cast: Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer Misc: IMDB | Amazon | iTunes

Snow White (Lily Collins), an orphaned princess, is the rightful ruler of her kingdom, but a jealous, evil queen (Julia Roberts) schemes to gain control. When a charming prince (Armie Hammer) spurns the queen in favor of Snow White, she has the princess thrown into the woods to be devoured by a fearsome beast. Rescued by a band of diminutive highway robbers, Snow White vows to take back her realm from the treacherous queen and, with the help of her small rescuers, roars into action.

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Trivia

• Lily Collins auditioned for Snow White in Snow White and The Huntsman (2012), but lost to Kristen Stewart. Sam Claflin auditioned for the Prince, but lost the role and later went on to be cast as the prince in Snow White and The Huntsman. Coincidentally, Collins and Claflin later starred together in Love, Rosie (2014).
• The sign outside the dwarves’ house reads “no entry over 4 feet”. At least 4 of the dwarves are over 4 feet, including Butcher, who has the line, “I say never trust anyone over 4 feet”. He’s 4’1.
• Sam Claflin auditioned for the role of The Prince but lost to Armie Hammer. Coincidentally, he was later cast in the rival Snow White project, Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) as Prince Charming.
• Last film of costume designer Eiko Ishioka before her death.
• Lily Collins admitted in an interview that she originally auditioned for the role of Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) (based on the same Brothers Grimm story), losing to Kristen Stewart.
• Almost all of the unlikely seeming beauty treatments the Queen undergoes are actually real treatments you can get at spas all over the world. Among the real ones are: the bird poop paste, the chocolate (or clay, it’s not clear which it is since it’s brown) mask, the snake massage, the snail slime, the maggots and the tiny fishes that eat away dead skin cells. One of the few (if not the only) fake treatments shown is the bee sting to the lips to plump them up, although lip plumpers really do contain (usually botanical or chemical, not insectoid) irritants.
• The original script included a scene between a shirtless Prince (Armie Hammer) and the Queen (Julia Roberts) in which the Queen remarks how smooth his chest is. This line had to be altered when Hammer refused to shave the hair off his chest for the scene.
• According to Julia Roberts, Mirror Mirror is the first film that made her young children aware that their mother was a famous film actress. Even though her children showed a large amount of enthusiasm about the Evil Queen, Roberts did not let them see the film for they were “too young.” In fact, Roberts kept her work a secret from her children while Mirror Mirror was filming. “They’re too young for it (the movie) and I think they would find it (me) disturbing,” she said.
• Throughout the film, Julia Roberts wears enormous ball gowns. On the set, her children hid underneath her skirt without anyone knowing. In between takes, Roberts had her children removed from the set because she was concerned about them hearing her “vile” dialogue as the Evil Queen.
• While filming a fight scene between the Evil Queen and Snow White, Julia Roberts accidentally ripped out some hair from Lily Collins.

Character Quotes

• The Queen: It would warm my ancient heart if you could accept this modest gift on your wedding day.
  [Hands her the apple]
  Snow White: That’s very kind of you.
  The Queen: Just one bite for good fortune. To the fairest of them all.
  Snow White: Age before beauty. It’s important to know when you’ve been beaten, yes?
  The Queen: So it was Snow White’s story after all.
• The Queen: Snow White. Is there a fire?
  Snow White: I’m sorry?
  The Queen: Is your bedroom on fire? Because I’m searching for an explanation as to why you would be out of your bedroom and in here, and my first guess was fire.
  Snow White: I thought maybe I could come to the gala. You know, because today is my eighteenth birthday.
  The Queen: Is it now? Oh, my. Oh, my! Snow White, maybe it is time I eased up on you, hmm? After all, you’ve done nothing to me. Caused no problems. And yet… there is something about you that’s so incredibly… irritating. I don’t know what it is. The slumped shoulders, the hair, that voice. Mmm. I know what it is! I think it is the hair. I hate your hair. I don’t care if it’s your one-hundredth birthday. Don’t ever sneak into a party like this again.