Princess Protection Program (with the last word
spelled as Programme within the
United Kingdom) is a
Disney Channel Original Movie and winner of the
Teen Choice Awards 2009 for Choice Summer TV Show, that premiered on Friday, June 26, 2009. The film is directed by Allison Liddi-Brown, filmed in Puerto Rico
written by Annie DeYoung
and stars
Selena Gomez and
Demi Lovato.
Princess Protection Program was watched by 8.5 million viewers, the fourth-highest premiere for a Disney Channel Original Movie
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Plot
Princess Rosalinda (
Demi Lovato) of the small Spanish-speaking nation of Costa Luna is about to be crowned queen upon reaching maturity. Inexplicably, General Kane, the dictator of a neighboring country (Costa Estrella), is able to massively infiltrate her palace with his agents during her coronation rehearsal, and attempts to assassinate her while effecting a
coup d'etat against her regime. Luckily, Joe Mason, an agent of the Princess Protection Program, a secret organization funded by royal families that looks after endangered princesses, is able to whisk her away to safety via helicopter because Gen. Kane’s agents failed to secure her rooftop helipad. They succeeded in capturing her mother, the Queen Sophia, but unfortunately for the general, his coup severely alienated him from the international authorities.
To keep Princess Rosalinda hidden, the Princess Protection Program places her in Mr. Mason’s home in rural
Louisiana because she refuses to trust anyone else. There she meets his daughter Carter (
Selena Gomez), an insecure girl who works at the local bait shop and dreams of going to the school dance with her crush, Donny (
Robert Adamson). In becoming a normal teenager, Rosalinda takes up the name Rosie and soon becomes popular at school, which Carter must learn to handle. The two become close friends. Carter teaches Rosie to act like a normal American girl, and Rosie shows Carter how to disarm those that scorn them and put them in their place by behaving as a princess.
