The tale of Penelope did not start well her beauty transformed by an evil spell. To the world outside the news was big a poor little girl with the face of a pig! How to break the curse Well nobody knows unless a handsome prince will propose. Christina Ricci stars as Penelope Wilhern a girl with an extraordinary curse. Hidden away in the family's majestic home her family try in vain to to find a blue-blood to love her in order to break the curse.. Determined to live life on her own terms Penelope breaks free into a whimsical world. Out in the world for the first time she is forced to question what it means to be different and what it takes to be loved.