Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23819 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-25
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 106 minutes

DVD Description
Cut from the same gold embroidered cloth as recent hit movies: 'A Cinderella Story, What a Girl Wants and The Princess Diaries', The Prince & Me is the must see, must own girlie movie for the Summer! Teen Queen Julia Stiles (Mona Lisa smile, Save the Last Dance) stars as Paige, a pre-med student from Wisconsin, who is on the fast track to achieving her lifelong ambition of becoming a doctor. Well, that's until she meets Edward, the dashing Crown Prince of Denmark (Luke Mably - '28 Days Later') who is trying to flee the restrictions of royal life that he never chose. Meeding to escape from the formality of his regal surroundings, Edward treks to Winconsin and poses as 'Eddie', a regular college student. Now they've fallen in love and the truth is uncovered, Edward is in line to become King! Paige has a right royal dilemma and has to chose between two dreams: becoming a princess or the dcotor she's always wanted to be.

Special Features
Commentary by Director Martha Coolidge The Lawnmower Race in The Prince & Me The look of the Prince & Me Inside the Fairy Tale: The Prince & Me 8 deleted / extended scenes Gag Reel Theatrical Trailer

Synopsis
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 student 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.

Customer Reviews

Julia Stiles takes her turn at the modern Cinderella tale
On one of the bonus features for "The Prince and Me" the producer for the film talks about how nobody had ever made a film about a prince who comes to the United States to fall in love with a commoner. I guess "Coming to America" does not count because the prince was looking for a bride over here, unless there is some reason Eddie Murphy's character does not count as a real (read "European") prince. That seems a strange justification for recycling this particular story on a par with saying a war movie would be something new because it takes place in Wisconsin and no war movie has ever been set in Wisconsin. I pick the Cheese state because "The Prince and Me," like "Love Actualy," thinks that the sexiest women in America are in Wisconsin. I have to salute whoever is in charge of getting the state good publicity in the movies.

The prince in this case is Edvard Valdemar Dangaard (Luke Mably), who is too busy enjoying the good life and all the women who cling to him everyone he goes to spend much time dealing with the fact he is the heir to the throne of Denmark. He is apparently so shallow that a tape of "Girls Gone Wild" focusing on college coeds in Wisconsin is enough to make him fly off to the U.S.A. to enroll at a college and get a dorm room that he can share with a roommate and still have room for his faithful servant Soren (Ben Miller). Meanwhile, Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles), a hard working pre-med student who is determined to get into Johns Hopkins and is apparently the last unengaged girl in her farm town back home in dairy country.

Once Eddie, as the prince know wants to be called, shows up on campus Paige is the woman that he is constantly running into, culminating with their faithful coupling as lab partners in a science course. This does not bode well for her grade in that course given Eddie's inability to show up on time for class, but eventually he starts to hold his own. Besides, Paige the science wiz is having trouble with her Shakespeare course (an ironic idea given the fact Stiles has done update versions of "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Othello") and Eddie likes to quote from the Bard as a way for making up for an apparently inability to come up with anything bright to say on his own.

These two are going to hate each other and then they are going to fall in love. Then she is going to find out who he really is and that is going to cause problems for a while. He is going to visit her farm and she is going to visit his castle. His parents are going to have something to say about her. She is going to have to decide between career and family. It is so hard for this sort of plot line to get away from all of the Cinderella cliches that it is easy to lose sight of some of the more interesting twists in this particular version of the tale and the fact that there are some charming moments. In terms of the later I will point to what may be the most romantic way of offering a girl a ring that I can have ever seen.

Unfortunately when "The Prince and Me" gets to the most interesting part, which deals with what sort of queen is needed in a country like Denmark in the 21st century, the movie is about over. I understand that this movie is targeted at teenage girls who want to believe in the fantasy that they can find their own Prince Charming, even if he is not the heir to a real European throne, and that such an audience is not interested in the material practice of the contemporary monarchy. But one of the things I liked about this movie was the idea that Paige forces Eddie to grow up so that he is actually interested in being a good monarch and helping his country. This is a good thing, because his ailing father (Edward Fox) has to abdicate his crown just as a strike is about to cripple the country.

Besides, this issue is a concern of Eddie's mother (Miranda Richardson), who has to revise her initial opinion about Paige. But the happy ever after here has to do with the romance and not the state of Denmark and I actually give this film points for not having a big wedding as the obvious grand finale. The chief attraction is Stiles, who cannot help but communicate intelligence as an actress. Fortunately the script does not force her to do any of the dumb things that often happen to such characters; that all happens to her prince. This is much more her film than his, and it is believable that she has a conflict of the head and the heart at the end. There are enough sweet moments and Stiles is definitely likeable so it is easy to give this film one more star than the horrid "A Cinderella Story," which came out that same year.

A very enjoyable, lovely movie, Julia Stiles is stunning!
Yes, it is predictable, and it is the typical Fairy-tale-movie, but who can honestly say they don't like these ever after movies?

sure it's not a classical, and not a serious movie, but is is enjoyable nonetheless.

Julia Stiles is stunning. Her Paige is fresh, witty, lovely and lovable. You can't not like her. Her acting is great and totally natural.

Luke Mably plays well too, he is a bit too goodlooking for my taste, but he is totally creditable for the look of a Danish prince, his British accent is charming!

The actors playing Paige's brothers were immensely funny, and Soren was perfect.

The filmong, photographing was stunning too.

There is quite an unexpected turn at the end: the surprising not happy ending, then coming round and having a happy ending sure makes it a bit less predictable.

A lovely movie to watch whenever you feel like you need your "rose-y world fix" :-)

Predictable and Romantic with a subtle twist!
The Prince and Me is about a restless prince who is trying to find out who he is and rebelling to the idea of been heir to the throne. He saw an advert on TV and decided to jet off to Wisconsin and leave his native Denmark behind.

He met a girl who stood up to me, and initially rejected his advances. The challenges of school work drew them together and they became friends and eventually an item. Anymore more fact will spoil it for you.

However it's an easy watch after a long hard week, you do not have to think much and it has a feel good feeling at the end of it.