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Her Majesty
Panorama Entertainment

Her Majesty reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 46 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.4 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements and some mild language

Starring Sally Andrews, Anna Sheridan, Mark Clare, Alison Routledge, Geoff Snell, Craig Elliott, Patrick Morrison, and Todd Emerson

Set 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)


GENRE(S): Family/Kids  |  Foreign  
WRITTEN BY: Mark J. Gordon  
DIRECTED BY: Mark J. Gordon  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: February 18, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: New Zealand 

Crystal Heart Award, 2002 Heartland Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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70
Variety Dennis Harvey
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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63
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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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50
San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
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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40
The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
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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38
Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
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.
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38
Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Unimaginative, exasperating film, hopefully but fruitlessly recycled after the success of 2002's ebullient Whale Rider.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Peter S. gave it a10:
Exceptional. And certainly better than 95% of the so called family films put out by the major studios. HER MAJESTY is a story that actually has some "meat on the bones". A great choice if you're looking for something to watch with the whole family.

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