Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

The Prince and Me

 
Movies:

The Prince & Me

 
  • Director: Martha Coolidge
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Romance
  • Movie Type: Melodrama, Romantic Comedy
  • Themes: College Life, Crowned Heads, Class Differences
  • Main Cast: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller, James Fox, Miranda Richardson
  • Release Year: 2004
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

For the second time in her career, Julia Stiles plays a character romancing the Crown Prince of Denmark in The Prince & Me, a romantic wish-fulfillment fantasy from director Martha Coolidge. Far from her role as Ophelia in 2000's Hamlet, however, Stiles plays Paige, a plucky, determined college student from the Midwest who's buried in her last few semesters of pre-med studies when she meets Eddie, a brash, impudent Danish foreign-exchange student who just happens to have a mysterious partner (Ben Miller) shadowing him in everything he does. What Paige doesn't know is that Eddie is in fact the spoiled son of the King (James Fox) and Queen (Miranda Richardson) of Denmark, on holiday in America hoping to find a nonstop keg party complete with buxom American babes. What he and his butler don't count on is squalid dorm life, final exams, and the possibility that Eddie might actually find his true soul mate in the sensible Paige. But when Eddie finally reveals his secret, will Paige want to give up her dreams of becoming a doctor for a playboy prince? ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

Cast

Alberta Watson - Amy Morgan; John Bourgeois - Ben Morgan; Eliza Bennett - Princess Arabella

Credit

Ondrej Nekvasil - Art Director, Vlasta Svoboda - Art Director, David Minkowski - Art Director, Matthew Stillman - Associate Producer, Joseph P. Genier - Associate Producer, Mike Elliot - Associate Producer, Kerry Barden - Casting, Billy Hopkins - Casting, Suzanne Smith - Casting, Gail Stevens - Casting, Hopkins-Smith-Barden - Casting, Mark Bennett - Casting, Jeffrey Lampert - Co-producer, Magali Guidasci - Costume Designer, Michaeala Stranadova - First Assistant Director, Martha Coolidge - Director, Branko Racki - Second Unit Director, James Spencer - Second Unit Director, Steven Cohen - Editor, Cami Winikoff - Executive Producer, Robin Schorr - Executive Producer, Jennie Muskett - Composer (Music Score), Robin Urdang - Musical Direction/Supervision, James Spencer - Production Designer, Alex Nepomniaschy - Cinematographer, Mark Amin - Producer, Peter P. Nicolakakos - Set Designer, Andrew Hull - Set Designer, Greg Chapman - Sound/Sound Designer, Mark Amin - Screen Story, Katherine Fugate - Screen Story, Katherine Fugate - Screenwriter, Jack Amiel - Screenwriter, Michael Begler - Screenwriter, David Perrault - Second Unit Director Of Photography, Ervin Sanders - Second Unit Director Of Photography, David Hankins - Supervising Sound Editor, Blackbox Digital - Visual Effects, Marie Raskova - Set Decorator, Howard A. Anderson Company - Title Design

Similar Movies

The Princess Diaries; Chasing Liberty; Pretty Woman; Maid in Manhattan; Arthur; Sabrina; A Little Romance; Ever After; What a Girl Wants; The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement; Aquamarine
Search unanswered questions...
Enter a word or phrase...
All Community Q&A Reference topics
 
Wikipedia: The Prince and Me
Top
The Prince and Me
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Produced by Mark Amin
Written by Mark Amin
Katherine Fugate
Starring Julia Stiles
Luke Mably
Ben Miller
Miranda Richardson
James Fox
Alberta Watson
John Bourgeois
Zachary Knighton
Music by Jennie Muskett
Cinematography Alex Nepomniaschy
Editing by Steven Cohen
Distributed by Lions Gate Films
Release date(s) 2004
Running time 106 min.
Country United States / Czech Republic
Language English
Followed by The Prince & Me: The Royal Wedding (2006)

The Prince and Me is a 2004 motion picture, directed by Martha Coolidge, and starring Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, and Ben Miller, with Miranda Richardson, James Fox, and Alberta Watson. The film features a cameo by Eddie Irvine, a retired Formula One driver.

The film was followed by a straight-to-DVD sequel, The Prince and Me 2: The Royal Wedding (2006), starring Mably and Kam Heskin and 2008 sequel The Prince and Me 3: Royal Honeymoon It has now been confirmed that "The Prince and Me 4" as it started shooting in early 2009, rumours in Thailand.

In the plot, a Wisconsin student meets a Danish prince, who persuades his Royal family to accept a commoner bride.

The film marks the return of Martha Coolidge to the big screen after a 7 year absence, and her service as the first female president of the Directors Guild of America.

Contents

Plot

The movie chronicles the story of Paige Morgan (Stiles) and Eddie (Mably), who happens to be the prince of Denmark. They have a romance with predictable ups and downs that end happily. Paige graduates and goes on to medical school, while Prince Edvard declares that he will wait until she is able to marry him.

Cast

  • Joanne Baron — Marguerite
  • Sarah Manninen — Krista
  • Tony Munch — Keith Kopetsky
  • John Nelles — Race Announcer (as John E. Nelles)
  • Claus Bue — Lutheran Archbishop
  • James McGowan — Photographer
  • Jean Pearson — Photographer
  • Dagmar Blahova — Lady in Waiting (as Dasha Blahova)
  • Henrik Jandorf — Prime Minister
  • Niels Anders Thorn — Thomas Anderson
  • Jesper Asholt — Cab Driver
  • Andrea Veresova — Eddie's Girlfriend
  • Winter Ave Zoli — Eddie's Girlfriend
  • Jennifer Roberts Smith — John's Wife
  • Zdenek Maryska — Corporation Negotiator
  • Vladimir Kulhavy — Union Negotiator
  • Garth Hewitt — Desperate Dan
  • Patricia Netzer — Royal Palace Maid (Brigget)

Reception

Critics gave the film mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes rated it 27% (rotten). Metacritic reported the movie had an average score of 47 out of 100, based on 31 reviews.[1] The Christian Science Monitor's David Sterritt gave the film a good review, stating that the movie was "quite appealing, thanks to good-humored acting and to Martha Coolidge's quiet directing style." Meanwhile, Manohla Dargis of The Los Angeles Times criticised the movie, calling it "a blandly diverting, chastely conceived and grammatically challenged fairy tale"[2] USA Today commented that The Prince and Me was overall "well-meaning, cute, sweet" but that the film could have been improved with "a bit more quirkiness and a little less formula."[3]

Filming Locations

  • York University was where the bar scene was filmed. The bar at York University is named The Underground.

Discrepancies between the movie and reality

  • Though the plot revolves around the Danish royal family, very little information provided in the film seems to be factual, and places such as Folketinget and Amalienborg look nothing like they do in reality.
  • Denmark does not currently have a king. Denmark is ruled by Queen Margrethe II, and her husband is the French-born Prince Consort of Denmark.
  • The name, King Haraald, is not a real name. Harald V is the name of the king of neighbouring Norway. Harold Godwinson was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England in the 11th century. Harold is the name of the fictional king in Shrek 2.
  • The names of Danish crown princes, and hence kings, have by tradition alternated between Frederik and Christian ever since the 15th century.
  • As opposed to what the plot claims, Denmark did not have a parliament in the 13th century.
  • The film depicts the Royal Family as having a substantial political influence. In reality, Denmark is a constitutional monarchy where the Queen and the Royal Family are above party politics. Instead, the role of the monarchy is mainly to represent Denmark abroad while serving as a unifying institution at home. However, the Queen does have a constitutional role in appointing the Prime Minister of Denmark and members of the Cabinet, as well as giving royal assent to bills passed by Parliament.
  • The movie was released one month before the real life marriage of Crown Prince of Denmark. Prince Frederik married Mary Donaldson, an Australian commoner. Mary did not know that Frederik was a prince when they first met, which was in a bar during the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

References

External links


 
Shopping: The Prince and Me
Top
 
 

 

Copyrights:

Movies. Copyright © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Prince and Me" Read more

 

Mentioned in