Prince Charming (TV film)
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| Prince Charming (TV film) | |
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 Prince Charming |
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| Directed by | Allan Arkush |
| Produced by | Robert Halmi Jr, executive producer |
| Written by | Doug Palau |
| Starring | Martin Short Christina Applegate Sean Maguire Bernadette Peters |
| Music by | Lisa Coleman Wendy Melvoin |
| Cinematography | Jamie Anderson |
| Editing by | John Duffy |
| Distributed by | Hallmark Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | July 13, 2003, USA, (TNT television) |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Prince Charming is a comical fairy tale, relating the story of a Prince who is cursed, his wizard squire, and the present-day women who lift the curse. This made-for-television movie starred Martin Short as the wizard squire trying to keep his Prince Sean Maguire from harm, with Christina Applegate as the woman who wins the Prince's love and Bernadette Peters as an actress who inadvertently lifts a 500-year curse.
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[edit] Plot Summary
On his wedding day, the Prince commits a romantic indiscretion and is "frogged"--cursed by turning him into a frog for eternity unless a woman kisses him and marries him. For good measure, his squire Rodney is also frogged.
Moving forward 500 years, the Prince and Rodney, in the form of frogs, find themselves in New York's Central Park, where the Prince sees Kate driving her horse-drawn carriage and falls in love with her. However, Margo impetuously picks up the Prince-frog and kisses him, breaking the curse until the next full moon, and turning the Prince and Rodney into their true human selves (although dressed very oddly).
Prince John and Rodney begin their search for the woman who kissed John, with the help of Kate. When the Prince in human form finally meets Margo, while performing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", she decides to make her unfaithful lover, Hamish, jealous by initiating a romantic tryst. The Prince, realizing that he must marry Margo in order to permanently break the curse, proposes marriage. Meanwhile, Rodney finds in Serena a fellow "wizard" and they try to find potions, etc, that will break the curse.
In the end, the three couples manage to find themselves with the right person, the curse is forever broken by true love, and all marry to live happily ever after.
[edit] List of characters
- Rodney--a wizard squire -- Martin Short
- Kate -- a horse-drawn carriage driver -- Christina Applegate
- Serena -- dresser to Margo -- Andrea Martin
- Hamish -- director/lover of Margo -- Billy Connolly
- Margo -- a starting-to-age Broadway actress -- Bernadette Peters
- Prince 'Charming' John -- the young Prince -- Sean Maguire
[edit] Trivia
This movie reunites Bernadette Peters with her costar from Broadway's The Goodbye Girl, Martin Short, and her director from the movie Heartbeeps, Alan Arkush.
Andrea Martin was married to Martin Short's wife's brother (making her an ex-sister-in-law of Short).
