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The Prince and Me (Widescreen Edition) | Year: 2004 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Martha Coolidge Actors/Actresses: - Julia Stiles - Luke Mably - Miranda Richardson Awwwwww Julia Stiles is sensational in this would be fairy tale movie. Move over Princess Diaries, theres a new princess on the block. Julia plays Paige Morgan, a farm girl who has her life all mapped out. She is going to medical school and becoming a doctor so she can join Doctors without Borders and visit all of the exotic places she has never been able to see. It's all planned out, that is until she meets Prince Edward. Edward is a spoiled rich aristocrat with two much time on his hands. He wants freedom from his heritage and to look at college girls (...), so he leaves Denmark and travels to the heartland of America, Wisconsin to meet naughty American girls. what he finds is Morgan. The two make a great pair, and their chemistry is fantastic. Julia sparkles as always, and Luke Mabry is fantastic as the prince. The script is deliciously written and the film is a lot of fun. Great Movie - Can be reality I just saw this movie, and absolutely loved it! Julia Stiles and Luke Mably were strong leads. They had such great chemistry and it was so romantic. My boyfriend thought it was a great movie also. If you love feel good movies, you'll definitely love this movie. Also, I just saw on tv the other day that the real Crown Prince of Denmark had just married his bride, who is a commoner, whom he met at a bar when he was in Australia, and she didn't even know he was a prince at first. So, Prince and Me can be a reality and not just Hollywood make believe. Julia's great; the movie's not Last year, there was a career day in the kindergarten class of my niece Emily, and all the children had to pick their future professions. Emily's choice: "princess." Blame it on those repeat viewings of "Shrek" and "The Princess Diaries." If we'd been showing her "28 Days Later" and "Dawn of the Dead," she probably would have chosen "zombie" as her dream job. When pressed, poor Em couldn't say exactly what duties a princess performed on a regular basis. She won't have a much clearer picture if she happens to see "The Prince & Me," in which sunny Julia Stiles -- whose range and personality deserve better material than this -- plays Paige, a pre-med student who ponders forsaking medical school to try her luck as, oh, just the wife of Edvard (Luke Mably), her former chemistry lab partner who just happens to be the crown prince of Denmark traveling incognito. Wait, what's that? The king (James Fox) is in feeble health and is preparing to step down and let Eddie rule instead? Paige, baby, you're gonna be queen! Talk about a signing bonus! The primary plot strands in the screenplay were well-worn when Sigmund Romberg composed his operetta "The Student Prince" 80 years ago, but the four screenwriters who assembled this romantic romp seem to think they're in uncharted territory here. Contrasts are carefully set up between Paige's just-folks family on their organic dairy farm in Wisconsin (where, hilariously, it's still short-sleeve weather, even at Thanksgiving) and Edvard's far more refined household in their suitably palatial home. There's a predictably difficult first encounter between a tipsy Edvard and a perturbed Paige, who, like the heroine of "The Student Prince" pays her bills by working as a barmaid. Then the opposites attract, as Edvard enlightens Paige about Shakespearean speech -- you didn't think you were going to sneak by without a few "Hamlet" wisecracks, did you? -- and Paige gives Edvard lessons in the intricacies of doing your own laundry. If it weren't for Stiles' serene sassiness and a few welcome dashes of sarcasm from Ben Miller as Edvard's chaperone, the movie's first half would be a royal snooze. The action -- and the interest level -- pick up markedly once the story moves to Denmark, where Edvard and Paige must face some life-altering choices, and Paige must deal with Edvard's regal mom (the magnificent Miranda Richardson), who doesn't like the idea of her son cavorting with a commoner. As Paige tries to fill her demanding new role as a queen-in-training, the movie finally transcends its Cinderella complex and threatens to ask a few pointed questions about the place of old-style monarchies in today's world. There's even a hint of the late Princess Diana around the edges of the scenes in which Paige and Edvard attempt to escape the photo-snapping paparazzi. Still, just like Julia Roberts' Vivian in "Pretty Woman," the filmmakers want the fairy tale, and before long "The Prince & Buy The Prince And Me at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Prince And Me Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Prince And Me This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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