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Monte Carlo
Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.
2011 · Directed by Thomas Bezucha · 109 min · Adventure · Comedy · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
She's having the time of someone else's life.
Plot
Grace Bennett is a NYU-bound, Texas high-school student who works as a waitress in a restaurant with her high school dropout, best friend Emma Perkins, to earn money for a post-graduation trip to Paris, France. Grace's stepfather pays for her uptight older stepsister Meg Kelly to join them, and Emma goes to Paris despite her boyfriend Owen's marriage proposal.
The trip quickly proves to be a disappointment as the girls discover they were ripped off, with a cramped hotel room and a tour that moves too fast for anyone to appreciate anything properly. After missing the bus and being left behind by their tour guide at the Eiffel Tower, the three girls seek refuge from the rain in a posh hotel.
The hotel staff and paparazzi mistake Grace for the spoiled celebutante British heiress Cordelia Winthrop-Scott, Grace's double, who leaves rather than stay to attend an auction for a Romanian charity to which she is to donate a Bulgari necklace. Despite Meg's protests, the three girls spend the night in Cordelia's suite and fly to Monte Carlo with Cordelia's luggage the next day.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Thomas Bezucha, Maria Maggenti, April Blair
- Cinematography: Jonathan Brown
- Edited by: Jeffrey Ford
- Music: Michael Giacchino
- Production design: Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
- Produced by: Nicole Kidman, Denise Di Novi, Arnon Milchan, Alison Greenspan
Cast
- Selena Gomez as Grace / Cordelia Winthrop Scott
- Katie Cassidy as Emma
- Leighton Meester as Meg
- Cory Monteith as Owen
- Andie MacDowell as Pam
- Brett Cullen as Robert
- Luke Bracey as Riley
- Pierre Boulanger as Theo Marchand
- Amanda Fairbank-Hynes as Amanda
- Valérie Lemercier as Madame Valerie
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Fox 2000 Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Di Novi Pictures, Dune Entertainment
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $39,800,000
- Themes: monte carlo, mistaken identity, look-alike, young woman, texan, american abroad
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