Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel The Princess Bride, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck.
In 2016, the film was inducted by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
