| Princess Caraboo | | Cast : | Jim Broadbent, Phoebe Cates | | Director : | Michael Austin | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Dolby | | Released Date : | September 16, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | June 07, 2005 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Great Movie | Content
 | This movie is a very cute "family" movie. It was one that the whole family enjoyed. It is unusal to find a movie that will be suitable for younger children and teen alike. This movie is one that fits that bill. Highly recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | I did not enjoy this film | Content
| I am surprised at the high marks that some others gave this film. I found it slow and unexciting. Phoebe Cates brilliant? I hardly thought so. It was simply not my kind of film. You will know within 15 minutes whether it is for you or not. If you don't like it, turn it off, because it does not get any better. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 26, 2003 | | Summary | Fabulous Family Fare | Content
| This is such a wonderful movie -- engaging, humorous, delightful, romantic, and based on a real event. Beautifully acted and produced, with wonderful costumes, it also provides good fodder for a family discussion of human values. It's easy for us to become complacent about the idea that "all humanity is created equal" (of equal value) - but that's a radical notion throughout most of human history, even "civilized" England from a few hundred years ago. Buy it! Enjoy it! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 26, 2003 | | Summary | Fabulous Family Fare | Content
| This is such a wonderful movie -- engaging, humorous, delightful, romantic, and based on a real event. Beautifully acted and produced, with wonderful costumes, it also provides good fodder for a family discussion of human values. It's easy for us to become complacent about the idea that "all humanity is created equal" (of equal value) - but that's a radical notion throughout most of human history, even "civilized" England from a few hundred years ago. Buy it! Enjoy it! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 14, 2003 | | Summary | Is It True, Do You Think? | Content
| This is a thoroughly charming story. Phoebe Cates is a marvel, and puts in a terrifically nuanced performance. Stephen Rea is a perfect Gutch, a subdued rabbit of a reporter who has the journalistic sense to sniff out and test a story, and yet may not have the nerve to shake up his life in order to claim the woman he loves. Yeesh, that sounds like something out of Danielle Steele, but trust me, the story is ravishing, but not the least gushy or "rouged". Reminds me, though, that the other thing we've seen Cates in, was a Steele-ish series, and ... well, Cates is a perfectly beguiling Caraboo/Baker (so beguiling a Caraboo, it is really a shock to find that she is actually Mary Baker), which you may not expect from the sort of "potboiler" casting of this other, Steele-ish thing. Lithgow as a skeptic-don-turned-true-believer ... I am not a huge Lithgow fan, but he is perfect is this supporting role; he carries off both ends of the transition admirably. I am astonished to read that a reviewer finds fault with Kline. Both Lithgow and Kline perform with expertly-gauged restraint; in comparison, Jim Broadbent's Mr Worrall is buffoonish, but this too is in perfect service to the story. Indeed, there is a (distant) comparison to be made between Broadbent/Kline and Bertie Wooster/Jeeves ... the light-of-intellect master, and the shrewd-but-always-decorous servant. Even Kline's zealous "testing" of Caraboo in the Worralls' absence, is brilliantly measured. The whole cast perform wonderfully; the camera-work is a delight; the story is enchanting. If you haven't seen it, why, remedy this appalling oversight immediately! |
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