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Features: DVD, Special Collectors Edition, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Spanish Subtitled, Commentary, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Gag Reel
"Paige (Julia Stiles) has her future all mapped out. A fastidious pre-med student at the University of Wisconsin, she's vowed nothing will deter her from becoming a doctor. Until she meets Edward (Luke Mably), the dashing playboy Crown Prince of Denmark who's trying to escape a life he never chose. He's enrolled incognito at Paige's school to ""find himself"" and to take a detour from his destiny as king.Paige and ""Eddie"" end up as lab partners and discover there's more chemistry between them than just the classroom variety. Will he step away from his place in the Danish monarchy to be with her? Will she lose sight of her dream to become a doctor? Julia Stiles (Mona Lisa Smile) and Luke Mably (28 Days Later) are an awesome screen team in this sparkling romantic comedy that ""is a royal gem of a movie!"" --Chuck Thomas, WB-TV"
"It's all done with such good heart, and Stiles is so perfectly appealing as one of cinema's most grounded Cinderellas." Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun
"...a royal gem of a movie!" Chuck Thomas, WB-TV
"[Director Coolidge] lets romance and comedy bubble up from the characters instead of imposing gimmicky twists on the story." David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
"...an enchanting modern-day Cinderella story that everyone will love." Jeffrey Lyons, NBC-TV
"Julia Stiles is radiant, a star to wish upon." Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"...a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over." Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Editor's Note
Following in the footsteps of WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON and THE PRINCESS DIARIES, THE PRINCE AND ME is a modern-day fairy tale with a feminist twist. Julia Stiles stars as Paige Morgan, a hardworking, pre-med senior at the University of Wisconsin. A local farm girl, she has little interest in romance and is happiest when dreaming of having a future career working for Doctors Without Borders. All of that changes when she meets Edvard (Luke Mably), the crown prince of Denmark, who is posing as a run-of-the-mill foreign exchange student named Eddie in order to escape the prying eyes of the Danish paparazzi and his princely duties. Without the support of his royal mother (Miranda Richardson) and father (James Fox), Eddie takes a job at the bar where Paige works. Despite a disastrous first meeting, Paige slowly succumbs to Eddie's charms and over time the two opposites attract and find true love. However, the romance ends abruptly when Eddie's father becomes ill and Prince Edvard must return home to take over the throne. His true identity revealed, Paige follows him to Denmark and is swept off her feet by the unbelievable life of the royal family. However, when Edvard proposes to her, Paige is forced to choose between her down-to-earth dreams of becoming a doctor and her true love for Edvard in this new millennium Cinderella story.
| Features | 8 Deleted/ Extended SCenes | | Audio: English , French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Director Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | The Look Of The Prince & Me | | Theatrical Trailer | | Full Screen Presentation | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | The Lawnmower Race of The Prince & Me | | Commentary by Director Martha Coolidge | | Gag Reel | | Inside the Fairy Tale: The Prince & Me | | 7 Deleted/Extended Scenes | | An Alternate Ending | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 5/1/2007 |
| Running Time: 110 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2004 | | Catalog ID: 051274 | | UPC: 00097360512748 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"The actors, especially Stiles...and an amusingly tart Ben Miller as Eddie's valet, prove largely genial company." 04/02/2004 p.C14USA Today
"THE PRINCE & ME has the right messages about following your dreams and pursuing your ambitions, as well as giving us a likable, down-to-earth heroine..." 04/02/2004 p.3D Chicago Sun-Times
"[E]fficient, sweet, sometimes charming..." 04/02/2004 p.39 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 6 of 10
It's easy enough to recommend The Prince & Me as a romantic comedy. The movie wants to be mor
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
"The Prince & Me" recycles a story so old that it must satisfy some basic yearning in the human psyche -- or at least that portion of the psyche installed in teenage girls. It is, as you have probably guessed, about a romance between a prince and a commoner -- in this case, between the future king of Denmark and a Wisconsin farm girl. He enrolls in a Wisconsin university, they fall into hate and then into love, but when she follows him back to Denmark, she has to ask herself if she really wants to be the future queen..."The Prince & Me" is an efficient, sweet, sometimes charming PG-rated version of the story, ideal for girls of a certain age but perhaps not for everybody else. It stars Julia Stiles as Paige Morgan, a serious, focused student of biochemistry, who was raised on an organic dairy farm and is famous as "the last unengaged girl in town." Stiles is gifted at conveying intelligence, which is a mixed blessing here; any smarter, and she'd realize she was in a movie...So there's good stuff here, and the stars are likable, but the director, Martha Coolidge, throws so many logical roadblocks in our path that we keep getting distracted from the story...Quibble, quibble. The movie's target audience won't care. Others will. "The Prince & Me" has the materials to be a heartwarming mass-market love story, but it doesn't assemble them convincingly. - Roger Ebert
ReelViews 7 of 10
The Prince & Me, as one can surmise from the title, is a traditional fairy tale wrapped in a cloak of modernity. It plays both sides of the fence, trading on the traditional little-girl fantasy of growing up and falling in love with a handsome prince, while offering a moral that stresses independence and empowerment. It's a perfect choice for a mother/daughter evening out. And, since it's decently constructed, solidly performed, and not too naive, even those who are not dominated by estrogen will find a few things to appreciate...With a page-boy haircut, Julia Stiles inhabits the character of Paige with conviction. The film wants us to like her, and we do. Stiles outacts co-star Luke Mably at every turn, but that's okay, since, in some ways, he's little more than window dressing. Mably does a satisfactory job of looking dashing and playing a cad who gradually loses his rough edges...It's easy enough to recommend The Prince & Me as a romantic comedy. The movie wants to be more than that, but the muddled way in which it divulges its themes occasionally makes it suffer from a split personality. On balance, I think it works as light entertainment, and young teenage girls will adore what the film has to offer. But there's a sense that this movie fails to understand that there's more than one way for its heroine to live happily ever after. - James Berardinelli
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