The Prince and the Surfer (1999)

Directors

Arye Gross, Gregory Gieras

Cast

Allyce Beasley, Arye Gross, C. Thomas Howell, Gregory Poppen, Jennifer O'Neill, Linda Cardellini, Robert Englund, Timothy Bottoms, Vincent Schiavelli

The story

The film is an updated adaptation of the 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain set in Southern California beach culture, featuring a prince and, instead of a pauper, the skateboarding surfer Cash, who wants to be rich and escape his boring life. The Queen of Gelfland brings her son, prince Edward, to the United States, seeking a trade treaty; the young prince wants to escape his life, to spend time among the common people. During Edward's one permitted limousine ride near the beach, Cash skitches with the limo on its way back to the hotel, and meets Edward in his suite; the two hatch their plan to trade places, and separate.

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