Princess Melanie wants to examine her future husband and pretends to be his maid. His Highness plays the secretary.
Is this actually worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s fluff where people constantly bump into each other in hallways, absolutely. It’s light, it’s breezy, and it’s completely unconcerned with logic. If you need your movies to have stakes or, you know, a plot that holds water, you will probably want to thr...
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"Is this actually worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s fluff where people constantly bump into each other in hallways, absolutely. It’s light, it’s breezy, and it’s completely unconcerned with logic. If you need your movies to have stakes or, you know, a plot that holds water, you will probably want to throw your remote at the screen. The whole thing is built on that classic maid-pretending-to-be-princess setup. We have all seen it a thousand times. But there’s a certain sweetness ..."
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