Prince Charming is a 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 made-for-television film. It 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. The movie stars Martin Short

Martin Short

Martin Hayter Short, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best-known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live...

 as a wizard squire trying to keep his prince (Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire is an English actor and singer, who rose to fame in 1988 when at the age of eleven he took on the role of "Tegs" Ratcliffe on the BBC children's drama Grange Hill, in which he remained until 1992...

) from harm, with Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...

 as the woman who wins the prince's love and Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...

 as an actress who inadvertently lifts a 500-year curse.

Plot

On his wedding day, Prince John commits a romantic indiscretion and is "frogged". He is 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

Central Park

Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...

, where the Prince sees Kate driving her horse-drawn carriage and falls in love with her. However, the actress 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 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.

Characters

• Martin Short
  Martin Short
  Martin Hayter Short, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best-known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live...
  
   - Rodney, a wizard squire
• Christina Applegate
  Christina Applegate
  Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...
  
   -Kate, a horse-drawn carriage driver
• Andrea Martin
  Andrea Martin
  Andrea Louise Martin is an American and Canadian actress and comedienne. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, on stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series, SCTV.-Personal life:Martin, the oldest of three...
  
   - Serena, Margo's dresser
• Billy Connolly
  Billy Connolly
  William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin...
  
   - Hamish, director/Margo's lover
• Bernadette Peters
  Bernadette Peters
  Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...
  
   - Margo, a starting-to-age Broadway actress
• Sean Maguire
  Sean Maguire
  Sean Maguire is an English actor and singer, who rose to fame in 1988 when at the age of eleven he took on the role of "Tegs" Ratcliffe on the BBC children's drama Grange Hill, in which he remained until 1992...
  
   - Prince 'Charming' John, the young Prince
• Colin Fox
  Colin Fox (actor)
  Colin Fox is a Canadian actor. His acting credits include playing Jean Paul Desmond and Jacques Eloi Des Mondes in Strange Paradise , as well as voice work in various animated series, and in other roles in film, television and on the stage...
  
   - King Leo, Prince John's father
• Carly Street - Beautiful Maiden
• Marcia Bennett - Queen Isabel
• Colm Magner
  Colm Magner
  Colm Magner is a Canadian actor, writer, and director now based in New York City. He has worked in theatre, television, and film in Canada since 1982, during which time he worked with some of Canada's most innovative theatre companies including Da Da Kamera, DNA Theatre, and the Necessary Angel...
  
   - Lothian Knight
• Jake Goldsbie
  Jake Goldsbie
  Jacob "Jake" Benjamin Goldsbie is a Canadian actor.Goldsbie plays Toby Isaacs in Degrassi: The Next Generation, although he originally auditioned for the role of J.T...
  
   - Boy
• Vickie Papavs - Mother
• David Fox
  David Fox (actor)
  David Fox is a Canadian actor.Fox was born in Swastika, Ontario. He is best known for his role as schoolteacher Clive Pettibone in Road to Avonlea, and for a variety of roles on television...
  
   - King Pius
• Julia Paton - Milkmaid
• Meredith McGeachie - Camille / 'Helena'
• Kimwun Perehinec - Young Woman with Bike
• David MacLean
  David Maclean
  David John Maclean, Baron Blencathra is a Conservative Party life peer. He was the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border from 1983 to 2010.-Biography:...
  
   - Minister
• Frank Ruffo - Shopkeeper
• Denny Doherty
  Denny Doherty
  Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.-Early career:...
  
   - Jeweller
• Duane Murray - Actor
• Stefan Brogren
  Stefan Brogren
  Stefan Brogren is a Canadian actor and director. He is best known as Archibald "Archie"/"Snake” Simpson in the Degrassi franchise of television shows.-Career:...
  
   - Bob Worthington
• Lou Martini Jr. - Angry Cabbie
• Christine Brubaker
  Christine Brubaker
  Christine Brubaker is a Canadian actress. Well known for her work in the ensemble cast of the A&E TV original series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery , she is a member of the creative and performing arts faculty of Humber College in Toronto....
  
   - Clerk
• Philip DeWilde - Delivery Boy
• Clyde Whitham - Judge #1
• Roger Clown - Judge #2
• Robert Buck - Judge #3
• Sid Kroach - Lady #1
• Mark Burgess - Rep Actor / 'Romeo'
• Novie Edwards - Salesgirl
• Ian Leung - Tour Guide
• John Stead - Tybalt
• Angela Vint - Waitress
• Julian Richings
  Julian Richings
  Julian Richings is an English-born Canadian actor. He appeared in over 50 Canadian films and 20 separate television series.-Life and career:...
  
   - Wacktazar
• Laird Mackintosh - Young Anwyn Noble
• Richard Quesnel - Anwyn Knight

Production Credits

• Guru Studios
  Guru Studios
  Guru Studio is an Canadian animation studio based in Toronto, Canada. The company has won various industry awards and has been featured in several international film festivals.Guru won a Telly Award in 2010 for their short film Hazed...
  
   - Special Effects Company (additional character animation) http://www.gurustudio.com/

Trivia

This movie reunites Bernadette Peters with her costar from Broadway's The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict...

, Martin Short, and her director from the movie Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps is an American romantic sci-fi comedy film about two robots who fall in love and decide to strike out on their own. It was directed by Allan Arkush, and starred Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as the robots...

, Alan Arkush.

External links

• RHI Films listing for "Prince Charming"