SummarySet in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely appealing coming of age story about a young girl in New Zealand who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to visit her small hometown. (Panorama Entertainment)
Directed By:Mark J. Gordon
Written By:Mark J. Gordon
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Despite its faltering touch with the story's darker, more melodramatic threads, Her Majesty nonetheless proves winning overall thanks to a predominant emphasis on nostalgia, whimsy (heroine's royal audience fantasies include one full-on production number) and droll-to-broad humor.
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Her Majesty is the kind of movie where you start out smiling, and then smile more broadly, and then really smile, and then realize with a sinking heart that the filmmakers are losing it.
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To earnest for its own good. Sincere and heartfelt, it's the kind of family film that might be at home on cable.
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It's as if Gordon feared his film's none-too-subtle suggestion that kids should ask questions and decided to provide answers instead, tying up his story with a phony happy ending.
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Against "Whale Rider's" well-acted, intimate story, Gordon's film feels like an endless spiral of sub-par soap-opera acting, mired in trite, predictable dialogue.
38
Unimaginative, exasperating film, hopefully but fruitlessly recycled after the success of 2002's ebullient Whale Rider.
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Production Company:
- Silicon Valley Film Fund
Release Date:Feb 18, 2005
Duration:1 h 47 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:One special day will change her life forever.
Awards
New Zealand Film and TV Awards (I)
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Marco Island Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Heartland International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
