Prince Charming (TV film)

Infobox Film | name = Prince Charming (TV film)


caption = Prince Charming
director = Allan Arkush
producer = Robert Halmi Jr, executive producer
writer = Doug Palau
starring = Martin Short
Christina Applegate
Sean Maguire
Bernadette Peters
music = Lisa Coleman
Wendy Melvoin
cinematography = Jamie Anderson
editing = John Duffy
distributor = Hallmark Entertainment
released = July 13 2003, USA, (TNT television)
runtime = 87 minutes
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0261203

"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.

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.

List of characters

* Rodney - a wizard squire - Martin Short
* Kate - a horse-drawn carriage driver - Christina Applegate
* Serena - Margo's dresser - Andrea Martin
* Hamish - director/Margo's lover - Billy Connolly
* Margo - a starting-to-age Broadway actress - Bernadette Peters
* Prince 'Charming' John - the young Prince - Sean Maguire
* Kin Leo - Prince John's father - Colin Fox

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).

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261203/maindetails Internet Movie Database listing]

* [http://www.rhifilms.com/property.php?propertyId=PrinceCharming RHI Films listing for "Prince Charming"]

ee also

* Wikipedia article on the "Prince Charming" fairy tale

* Wikipedia article on Television movies