The Princess & the Marine

2001
6.3| 1h40m| en
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Based on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member of the Bahraini Royal Family. Meriam, who does not wish to consent to an arranged marriage, knows her love affair with Jason is dangerous, as he is a Mormon Christian and she a Muslim. Her parents would never consent to their match, and so Meriam and Jason race against time to escape Bahrain and make it to the United States, where they can marry. If Meriam is sent back, however, her life may be in jeopardy.

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Steineded How sad is this?
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
m-ozfirat First of all I am going to be frank, honest but not judgemental. A naive, adolescent, spoilt brat of a princess falls in love with an American marine disrespectful of her decorum and prestige. The marine himself means well but should have known better that what he was doing was contemptuous and perhaps lustful. Other reviewers erroneously compare it to the classic Romeo & Juliet but in reality there's a big difference. This film is the challenges about someone's cultural identity, responsibilities and problems in a challenging external world rather then selfish individual feuds that are challenging to a relationship. She enters the USA illegally and Mr Johnson had to bail her out knowing he was breaking the law and to add insult to injury the ungrateful princess divorced him in 5 years to enjoy a decadent lifestyle and a casual life. To finish of there are outdated cultural customs but that was no excuse for the princess who could of made a difference and secondly every culture has it's problems. However this film with hindsight does highlight that Muslims have to be culturally flexible not just to progress but gain with confidence global prestige and responsibility to, which this film should highlight. For those who feel sorry for the superficial (nominal) princess Meriam remember the tragic accident of Princess Diana. Before you narrowly judge the Arabic reaction to Meriam which one is the real tragedy.
alexi odeh (alexithegreat) This is a horrible movie. They make the Muslim family look like they are bad people. This movie makes the American family look like they did not do anything wrong. First of all Jason should not even mess with this family to begin with. He disrespected her family. They are a royal family. This is a very bad movie because Muslims should stay with Muslims. Americans should stay with Americans. As you can see, they divorced in the end. The Muslim royal family are trying to protect their daughter from the American. He took her away and did not get penalized. He should of been sent to jail for life. He married her in a stupid chapel in Vegas (SIN CITY). The Muslims should have disciplined Mariam before she came to the country of America. Now she went from being a princess to an American divorced girl. If she would have married a Muslim, she would stay married. She did the wrong decision. It reminds me of the movie "Not without my daughter." Another bad movie, she was acting so stupid. She stole the kid and ran away. What a bad women. People make her a star. How ridiculous!!!!!!!
madsaru72 Having been to Bahrain, I enjoyed picking apart all the inaccuracies in the film. Like: The Manai plaza is in the middle of a sand lot and is much more militarized. The rooms in the movie were your standard sized Hollywood "barracks room" set. The rooms at the Manai are huge, and by hotel standards, rather top notch. The mall is in the middle of the city, not the suburbs. A house like the one the princess lived in wouldn't be on a tree lined boulevard, open to the common folk. Most nice homes over there are behind walls. The "Tree of Life", being the only thing worth seeing over there, would not be so isolated as to allow the princess to talk to, much less make out with, an unclean infidel. Tourists go there all the time. Whoever suggested shooting in suburban southern California should have been fired. They were in Vegas anyway,why not shoot there?
winky872 This is the best love story of all time! It is about a princess who falls in love with a marine, but is unable to marry him because of her parents and countries strict rules on dating and marriage..so you must see this movie if you are a true romantic and I am! So...write me if you have any questions on any movie...Thanks...Bye!!

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