Killing Cinderella - Synopsis
Claire Bame is getting divorced. Her fairy tale life has been destroyed by a pregnant beautiful blonde bitch and Prince Charming has flown the co-op! She’s thirty-five and hasn’t been single in a decade. She wonders, what am I supposed to do now?

“It would have been easier to pay for Irving’s funeral than to get divorced,” she tells her friend Dana, a divorced mom. Claire is obsessed with hypothetical funeral details, fantasizes about running over the blonde bitch with her car—she’s not going to give up. She’s divided the silverware set in half and has to find a place to live.

Desperate, she hires a bald somewhat sleazy but affordable divorce lawyer in Bakersfield, California and begins a long one-sided and unfair battle with a legal system that won’t fight for her. She’s filled to the brim with anger and slips further into a depressive funk each day. She decides to get professional help from Janet Underling, a therapist who has her talking to empty chairs and ripping phone books in half.

Next thing Claire knows, her boss is sexually harassing her. She’s making new friends and falling fast for Stuart. The relationship is short lived though as he dumps her through email. “Email! What happened to breaking up with someone in person?” Claire wants to know.

In her search for a new Prince Charming and a ‘Happily Ever After’, Claire dates an arrogant guy with 1950’s fantasies, a young lifeguard, gets propositioned by Bakersfield’s hottest young punk rock star, has to fend off an auto mechanic who wants to hook up with her when all she wants to do is pay him to fix her car. She applies for a home loan while trying to get a date with a realtor and finally finds a man she’s attracted to both physically and mentally, only he’s ‘not looking for a relationship’ even though a week later he’s engaged to someone else. She’s been broken up with every way there is to break up with someone: in person, on the phone, email, through myspace, text message, and the ever-popular disappearing act. And she has done some breaking up herself.

Meanwhile, her family treats her like she has a disease because she can’t find a man, her friends are looking for sperm donors for her on the streets of Hollywood, an old boyfriend has called and wants to see her, her court battle seems never ending, she’s lying to her OB/GYN about her sex life and she may be falling for her best friend Michael who’s emotionally unavailable.

Will Claire ever find her Prince Charming? Or will she kill the Cinderella fantasy once and for all and be happy on her own as a single thirty-something woman?  posted by Matildakay at 9:27 PM