The Princess and the Marine is a 2001 American made for television movie based on the true story of American Marine Jason Johnson and Bahrain Princess Meriam Al-Khalifa, with stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Marisol Nichols in the roles of Jason and Meriam.
The movie stars Marisol Nichols as Meriam Al-Khalifa, a Bahrainian royal who is not content to be an arranged marriage, even though her strict Muslim parents who never allow a union with a non-Mu...
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The Princess and the Marine is a 2001 American made for television movie based on the true story of American Marine Jason Johnson and Bahrain Princess Meriam Al-Khalifa, with stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Marisol Nichols in the roles of Jason and Meriam.
The movie stars Marisol Nichols as Meriam Al-Khalifa, a Bahrainian royal who is not content to be an arranged marriage, even though her strict Muslim parents who never allow a union with a non-Muslim. In the movie Meriam is allowed to go to the local mall, watch and listen to American pop culture, one day she calls up a local hotel and blurts out a room number after looking at her clock and arranges to meet the guy, Jason Johnson. After meeting the two become friends, but Meriam doesn't tell anyone because of her parents. After being caught Meriam and Jason exchange letters with the help of a jeweler in the mall, and plan to run away to America with a phony passport for Meriam and pass her off as a fellow Marine. Once in America,...
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