Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 04/24/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/KO/TH
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Loosely based on an actual incident, this family-friendly British
comedy is also a sly satire of class consciousness.
Phoebe Cates stars as a woman who appears in the English countryside of 1817 wearing exotic garb and speaking gibberish. Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered by the Worralls (
Wendy Hughes and
Jim Broadbent), who are then persuaded by their suspicious Greek butler Frixos (
Kevin Kline,
Cates' real-life husband) to have the drifter tried for vagrancy and begging, capital crimes. At the hearing, however, the woman persuades the magistrate through pantomime that she is a princess of Javanese origin named Caraboo, escaped from pirate kidnappers. The Worralls welcome Caraboo back into their home, lavishing upon her the deference due a royal. A society sensation, Caraboo wins over a linguist (
John Lithgow), the prince regent (
John Session), and even Frixos. Only an Irish reporter, Gutch (
Stephen Rea), remains skeptical about Caraboo's origins.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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