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Hilary Duff waits tables at her wicked stepmother's San Fernando Valley diner while trading anonymous messages with a soulmate — who turns out to be Chad Michael Murray, the most popular boy in school. Critics hated it; an entire generation of sleepovers overruled them.
Steve Martin versus twelve kids, one frog, and a dog with a taste for Ashton Kutcher. The Christmas 2003 family comedy that became a basic-cable perennial — and a time capsule of an absurdly stacked early-2000s cast.
Rome, Paolo, the Trevi Fountain, and "What Dreams Are Made Of" sung at the International Music Video Awards. The 2003 movie was the first theatrical film ever spun from a Disney Channel show, the finale of Lizzie McGuire, and the moment Hilary Duff graduated from cable to the multiplex, opening second only to X2.