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Lili Reinhart Reveals Story Behind ‘My Date with the President’s Daughter’ Dress Recreation
Lili Reinhart is ready for her date with the perfect pink dress, oh yeah.
The Love Hypothesis star stepped out in a custom Miu Miu look for the movie’s Los Angeles premiere on Sept. 22. And while walking the red carpet for the event, she revealed that the velvet pink outfit was inspired by a look worn by Elisabeth Harnois in the 1998 Disney TV movie My Date with the President’s Daughter.
And Reinhart’s recreation of the iconic getup was even more meaningful than that. Indeed, she revealed that the dress wound up inspiring her fashionable references to several prominent rom-coms throughout the film’s press tour.
“This was sort of the dress that sparked the idea of doing an homage,” Reinhart exclusively told E! News’ Erin Lim Rhodes on the red carpet. “I don't know why it was this one. I guess this is the one that lives in the back of my head forever.”
And once she had the idea, designer brand Miu Miu was ready “to play,” making the 30-year-old a custom version of the pink dress that she could keep forever.
“It’s an honor to have a custom anything,” she added, “but custom Miu Miu is really special.”
Of course, her My Date with the President’s Daughter-inspired outing is just the most recent time Reinhart has recreated an unforgettable movie dress during her press tour. She also nodded to Kate Hudson’s yellow dress from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a floral dress worn by the late Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls and a purple slip dress with a coat similar to what Jennifer Garner wore in 13 Going on 30.
But it wasn’t just rom-coms that captured her attention.
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“I paid homage to Ever After and Atonement,” she noted. “Those are romance movies and also dramas. To me, rom-coms can kind of seemingly be taken less seriously, so I wanted to put them all into a group together.”
However, it all originated with the little pink dress, one which the Disney film’s original star Harnois admitted she was nervous about wearing.
"When the costume designer showed it to me, I wasn't fully comfortable with how skintight it was, how short it was," she shared with E! News in 2024. "I was a tomboy as a kid and then kind of not that way as a teenager—like not that comfortable to wear clothes like that. Not that it wasn't cute, I just was self-conscious. I was at the most self-conscious age I could be."
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Harnois—who was 18 when she made the film alongside Boy Meets World’s Will Friedle—even asked the costume designer if she could wear something else, but was told no.
"I was like, ‘OK,' and I wasn't gonna fight her on it. Look what happened: It ended up being this iconic thing that people wear for Halloween,” the 47-year-old said. “I feel grateful that we got to use that dress because I think that's part of what brought the movie so much attention was those reveals with our characters getting our new clothes. I think she did a really good job, our costume designer."
The Love Hypothesis is now streaming globally on Prime Video.
For more movies set to premiere this year, keep reading.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Practical Magic 2 - September 11, 2026
The witchy Owens sisters return in this sequel to the 1998 classic. Starring Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Lee Pace, Joey King, and Maisie Williams.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
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The Love Hypothesis - September 23, 2026
Based on the New York Times best-seller, The Love Hypothesis follows Olive (Lili Reinhart), a Ph.D. candidate who impulsively kisses her department's most intimidating professor, Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman). Their mutual need for a fake relationship turns into an experiment in chemistry that might actually solve for love.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Prime Video
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Unabomber - September 25, 2026
Inspired by true events, Unabomber follows Ted Kaczynski’s (Jacob Tremblay) transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous domestic terrorist. Also starring Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley and Annabelle Wallis.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix
Amazon MGM Studios
Verity - October 2, 2026
Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Digger - October 2, 2026
Tom Cruise teams up with Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu for this black comedy the world's most powerful man as he embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Netflix
Below - October 8, 2026
Josh Hartnett stars as a fisherman who must fight to hold his close-knit community together when an unidentified sea creature begins terrorizing his hometown.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures
The Social Reckoning - October 9, 2026
A companion piece to 2010's The Social Network, writer/director Aaron Sorkin's new film is inspired by the true story of a young Facebook engineer (Mikey Madison) who enlists the help of a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) and the social network’s most guarded secrets.
Where to watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Netflix
Animals - October 9, 2026
Apple TV
Matchbox The Movie - October 9, 2026
In this action-packed adventure inspired by the iconic Mattel toys, an undercover CIA agent (John Cena) returns to his small town and unwittingly gets his childhood friends embroiled in a frantic international pursuit to save the world.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Apple TV
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Always Lalisa - October 12, 2026
This documentary feature follows a pivotal year in superstar LISA’s life, as, for the first time since childhood, she steps away from BLACKPINK for a year of independence.
Where to Watch: In theaters starting October 12, then streaming exclusively on YouTube Premium later this year
Buy a ticket HERE.
Focus Features
Sense and Sensibility - October 16, 2026
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Elinor Dashwood in this latest adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel. Also starring Fiona Shaw, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Esmé Creed-Miles.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Paramount Pictures
Street Fighter - October 16, 2026
A live-action version of the legendary arcade game, starring Noah Centineo, Jason Momoa, 50 Cent, and many more as the iconic fighters.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Netflix
Sacrifice - October 16, 2026
During a charity gala brimming with celebrities and billionaires, a movie star in the midst of an existential crisis (Chris Evans) is taken hostage by an eco-warrior (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her devoted followers.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix
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Wicker - October 23, 2026
Alexander Skarsgard transforms for his role as the Wicker Husband made for Olivia Colman's ostracized fisherwoman in this unconventional love story.
Where to Watch: In select theaters on October 23, expanding October 30, 2026.
Bleecker Street
A Talent for Murder - October 23, 2026
This thriller follows a mysterious young man from a New York publisher (Alden Ehrenreich) who is sent to Switzerland to persuade the renowned writer Patricia Highsmith (Helen Mirren) to write one final installment of the Ripley anthology.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Warner Bros. Pictures
The Cat in the Hat - November 6, 2026
Based on the beloved Dr. Seuss book, this animated adaptation will feature the voices of Bill Hader, Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, and America Ferrera.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Murray Close/Lionsgate
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping - November 20, 2026
This highly anticipated prequel revisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games. Also starring Glenn Close, Whitney Peak, Elle Fanning, Ralph Fiennes, Mckenna Grace and Maya Hawke.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Universal Pictures
Focker-In-Law - November 25, 2026
Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reunite alongside Ariana Grande for this new chapter in the Meet the Parents franchise.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Netflix
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth - November 25, 2026
Brad Pitt returns to his Academy Award-winning role as Cliff Booth, only this time it’s 1977 and it’s a very different Hollywood. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, and also starring Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Where to Watch: In IMAX theaters starting Nov. 25, then streaming on Netflix on Dec. 23.
Disney
Hexed - November 25, 2026
This animated coming-of-age saga follows an impulsive teenage girl named Billie (Hailee Steinfeld) who discovers secret magical abilities which hurtle her into a spectacular journey out of suburbia and into a vast witch realm called Hexe.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Marvel Studios
Avengers: Doomsday - December 18, 2026
An insanely star-studded cast of MCU fan-favorites return to our screens in this fifth installment of the Avengers film series.
Where to Watch: In theaters
Buy a ticket HERE.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Dune: Part Three - December 18, 2026
Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet return to deliver the epic conclusion to director Denis Villeneuve’s trilogy. Also starring Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, and Javier Bardem.
Where to Watch: In theaters and IMAX
Buy a ticket HERE.
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures
Jumanji: Open World - December 25, 2026
The core cast (Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart) returns for this final installment of the reboot trilogy about a magical board game.
Where to Watch: In theaters
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