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Princess Protection Program

Princess Protection Program

Family · TV Movie · Comedy · 2009

When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.

Movie details

Princess Protection Program

“Royality meets reality.”

2009 Family · TV Movie · Comedy 1h 29m

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6.6 / 10

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When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.

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Directed by

Allison Liddi-Brown

Written by

Annie DeYoung · David Morgasen

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato

Rosalinda María Montoya Fioré

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez

Carter Mason

Nicholas Braun

Nicholas Braun

Ed

Tom Verica

Tom Verica

Joe Mason

Molly Hagan

Molly Hagan

The Director

Jamie Chung

Jamie Chung

Chelsea Barnes

Samantha Droke

Samantha Droke

Brooke Angels

Court is in session

Put Princess Protection Program on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.