Diana & Me

Diana & Me (1997)

Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.

Date of release
1997-12-04
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
David Parker

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$205.8K

Diana & Me is a 1997 Australian romantic comedy film directed by David Parker and starring Toni Collette, Dominic West and John Simm.

Production

The original script was by Elizabeth Coleman. According to David Parker, the original female lead was older and more like Shirley Valentine. Parker then worked on the script with Matt Ford for 18 months.

Shooting finished in December 1996 and post-production was completed by Easter 1997 for a release planned for August. These plans were thrown into confusion when Princess Diana was killed in a car accident on 31 August 1997. Parker and Ford spent six weeks reworking the film, adding some new sequences and narration. David Parker later said:

There was nowhere to go with that film. We did shoot a new little top and tail for it primarily to place the movie within the past so that it would at least work chronologically. But it appeared it wasn't enough. We either came out too early with it or such was the response to Princess Diana in life and death that we were completely on the wrong page, a film that could be released only after her death.

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