The Prince and Me (PG)
Good acting saves unoriginal Cinderella story.
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- Studio: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures
- Directed By: Martha Coolidge
- Cast: Julia Stiles
- Running Time: 103 minutes
- Release Date: 04/02/2004
- Video/DVD Release Date: 08/10/2004
- Genre: Comedy
- MPAA Rating: PG
- MPAA Explanation: some sex-related material and language
Parents need to know
Families can talk about what Eddie and Paige saw in each other and what challenges lie ahead of them. What would be the best thing about being a prince? What would be the worst? What made Eddie's mother change her mind? How do the costumes and uniforms Eddie and Paige wear help tell the story? Families might also want to talk about the way Eddie approaches the labor dispute. Why was it so hard to resolve? What do Paige's and Eddie's mothers have in common?
Message
Social Behavior:
Good female role model. Gay joke.
Consumerism:
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Drinking, scenes in bar, drinking game.
Violence
An ailing parent.
Sex
Some passionate kissing and sexual references including "Girls Gone Wild" video, mild gay joke.
Language
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Nell Minow
Is it any good?
Director Martha Coolidge has a sensitive touch in dealing with young female characters. She and Stiles do their best to make Paige more than the typical romantic comedy heroine. Mably shows some ease and charm as Eddie, who describes that other Danish prince, Hamlet, as though he is talking about himself: "The prince was young and scared and didn't feel ready for the choices he had to make." All of that helps to make up for a weak script that is too often too silly and too seldom original. By the time we have to sit through a scene of Paige trying on all the Crown jewels, they have long since run out of ideas.
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