Princess Caraboo Movie Review 1994

Fluffy quasi-fairy tale (but based on a true story) finds an exotic beauty (Cates) appearing in an English village in 1817. She speaks a language no one understands and is taken under the wing of the local gentry, the Worralls, who believe she is an Asian princess washed ashore during a shipwreck. Meanwhile, the local jouralist (Rea) is suspicious but protective, an Oxford linguist (Lithgow) is determined to prove her a fraud, and she must put up with the Worrall family's pompous Greek butler (Cate's husband Kline at his showy best).

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 97 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Royalty, Great Britain, True Stories, Period Piece: 19th Century, Shipwrecked

Screenplay

Michael Austin, John Wells

Cast

Phoebe Cates, Stephen Rea, John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Peter Eyre, Jacqueline Pearce, John Lynch, John Sessions, Arkie Whiteley, John Wells

Cinematography

Freddie Francis

Director

Michael Austin

Music

Richard Hartley

Other

George Akers

Producer

Andrew Karsch, Simon Bosanquet, Armyan Bernstein, Tom Rosenberg, Marc Abraham, Beacon Films, Longfellow Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures