The beloved fairytale of true love and adventure for Valentine’s Day. The story has everything a classic tale should—fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love and miracles.Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair. – True love has never been a snap.

The Lensic will show The Princess Bride, on February 13, as part of a Big Screen Classics Valentine’s Day double header (the film, The Way We Were, will be shown on 2/14).

The fairy tale has become a beloved classic thanks to lines like “Good luck storming the castle,” and “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday,” and a cast of characters including a beautiful princess, an evil prince, a pirate, a giant and a thief. The fairytale begins with a grandfather reading his favorite book, The Princess Bride, to his hard-to-impress grandson. This book, he promises, has everything – fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love and miracles –and all that he promised comes to life before the boy’s enchanted eyes as his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup, the most beautiful woman in the world, and Westley, the man she loves.

Directed by Rob Reiner, the film boasts an impressive cast including Robin Wright (Buttercup), Cary Elwes (Westley), Chris Sarandon (Prince Humperdinck), Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya), Christopher Guest (Count Tyrone Rugen), André the Giant ( Fezzik) and Fred Savage, Peter Faulk, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane and Wallace Shawn.