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Movie
Princess Caraboo
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Phoebe Cates
- Jim Broadbent
- Wendy Hughes
- Kevin Kline
- John Lithgow
- Stephen Rea
- Peter Eyre
- Jacqueline Pearce
- Roger Lloyd-Pack
- John Wells
- John Lynch
- John Sessions
- Arkie Whiteley
- Kate Ashfield
- Ewan Bailey
- Annabel Brooks
- Anna Chancellor
- Rachel Fielding
- Anoushka Fooks
- David Glover
- Jerry Hall
- Jamie Harris
- Peter Howell
- Barbara Keogh
- Anthony Van Laast
- Philip Lester
- Steven Mackintosh
- Tim McMullan
- Murray Melvin
- Dougray Scott
- Andrew Seear
- David Sibley
- Ed Stobart
- Stromboli
- Pauline Thomson
- Jacqueline Tong
- Edward Tudor-Pole
- Marc Abraham
- Michael Austin
- Ian Wingrove
- George Akers
- Sam Riley
- Tom Rand
- Michael Howells
- Kelvin Pike
- Lucy Boulting
- Freddie Francis
- Tom Rosenberg
- Peter King
- Armyan Bernstein
- Anthony Van Laast