Plot
At a Wisconsin university, local farmer's daughter Paige Morgan is intrigued by odd Danish exchange student Edvard 'Eddie'...
Release Year: 2004
Rating: 5.6/10 (13,544 voted)
Critic's Score: 47/100
Director:
Martha Coolidge
Stars: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Miranda Richardson
Storyline At a Wisconsin university, local farmer's daughter Paige Morgan is intrigued by odd Danish exchange student Edvard 'Eddie', who is ignorant of many aspects of daily life, such as all domestic chores (no wonder, he's the incognito heir to the royal throne of Denmark, his roommate Soren a court minder) but well versed in other matters, such as Shakespeare. They become friends; invited -enouraged by her best friend- to the Moran family farm he makes a good impression on her parents and brothers and triumphs in the rustic lawnmower race. Only after some paparazzi track Edvard down to film them kissing and he has returned home because the king is gravely ill, Paige realizes he may be her true love, and flies to Copenhagen. Initially the court, especially queen Rosalind, opposes a commoner bride, but Edvard sticks to his guns before accepting to succeed his abdicating father...
Writers: Mark Amin, Katherine Fugate
Cast: Julia Stiles
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Paige Morgan
Luke Mably
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Eddie
Ben Miller
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Soren
Miranda Richardson
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Queen Rosalind
James Fox
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King Haraald
Alberta Watson
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Amy Morgan
John Bourgeois
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Ben Morgan
Zachary Knighton
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John Morgan
Stephen O'Reilly
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Mike Morgan
(as Steve O'Reilly)
Elisabeth Waterston
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Beth Curtis
Eliza Bennett
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Princess Arabella
Devin Ratray
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Scotty
Clare Preuss
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Stacey
Yaani King
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Amanda
Eddie Irvine
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Eddie Irvine
Taglines:
Finding your inner princess can be such a royal pain.
Opening Weekend: $9,406,378
(USA)
(4 April 2004)
(2682 Screens)
Gross: $28,165,882
(USA)
(20 June 2004)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The driver that Eddie races with at the start of the film is Eddie Irvine, a professional race car driver in real life.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Paige gets off of the horse after she reaches Denmark she has a bag on her shoulder. In the next shot, when Soren is showing her around, the bag disappears.
Quotes: Queen:
Between you and me Paige, being queen is not without its charms.
[Takes Paige to a vault and shows her the royal jewelry]
Queen:
So my dear, What would you like to wear for the coronation ball?
User Review
An under-appreciated movie
Rating: 9/10
I absolutely adore this movie. So, it might not have won an Oscar and
it may not be a cinematic masterpiece, but then again, it didn't try to
be, either. "The Prince and Me" is everything a good movie should be.
It's cute, funny, easy to watch, enjoyable, it doesn't resort to
swearing, violence, or sex, and it's not pompous, presumptuous, or
didactic. It IS happy, uplifting, creative, funny, cute, modern, and
overall completely enjoyable. I think it's silly that this movie is
called "a Cinderella story" by many. Just because a girl (unknowingly)
meets a European Prince doesn't mean the girl's going to be Cinderella.
In fact, the main character, Paige, is a modern, ambitious, typical
middle-class American college girl with dreams of being a doctor. She's
a hard worker and we get the impression she's never had a serious
relationship because she doesn't want to get "distracted" like her
friends, who all seem to be falling in love and getting married. Paige
is obviously the focused, studious one in her group of friends.
Meanwhile, her life couldn't be much more different than the life of
the young Danish Prince Edward (who is fictional, by the way; this
movie doesn't pretend to be a documentary). The playboy Prince is
immature and unfocused and resistant to his royal destiny, preferring
to race cars in the streets of Copenhagen and make the headlines of
tabloids. In the hopes of finding a fun, carefree life with crazy
college girls in America, he decides to be an exchange student in
Wisconsin at the university that Paige also happens to attend. The
story unfolds from here, as Paige learns that chemistry isn't just
something that you learn in a classroom, and as Prince Edward learns
the meaning of hard work, responsibility, and how to be an ordinary
college student with a personal egg poacher. Ultimately they both learn
the meaning of true love. However, don't expect a sugary sweet fairy
tale story: while it is sweet, the story has many modern twists and
plenty of humour thrown in for good measure (Scotty the roommate and
Soren the butler/caretaker are, quite simply, hilarious). Overall, this
is a smart movie, well thought out, well planned, and completely
enjoyable. I loved how this movie was a college student romance. Too
often with romance movies we're left with are either 20-something
urbanite stories or silly high school romances. I loved the one-liners,
irony, surprises, and humour in this movie and I highly recommend it as
a perfect Friday night movie rental. Don't get tripped up in the
irrelevant details (apparently it was a really warm Thanksgiving in
Wisconsin, and yeah, the Danish prince has impeccable English, and the
technicalities of the Danish government aren't exactly followed to a
"t")... but this is a movie to be enjoyed and not overly analyzed. It
strikes a perfect balance between just being realistic enough with
being a fun, modern, sweet, relatively carefree romance.
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