Christina Ricci shines as Penelope (Summit Entertainment)
Family curses are a pain. Just ask Penelope. Because some great-great-great (I think that's enough greats) grandfather was cruel enough to abandon a young pregnant woman that was deemed below him in class, poor Penelope must -- generations later -- suffer through her life bearing the visible mark of the curse set upon the family by a witch (the pregnant girl's mum). That's the premise of the modern fairy tale Penelope (opened February 29 throughout San Diego), which stars Christina Ricci as the cursed young lady in this revisionist take on the ugly duckling tale.
