:20:01
we have an annual ball.
:20:03
I was--I am hoping
that I may present you...
:20:07
to the press and the public
on that occasion.
:20:09
However, you desperately
need some instruction.
:20:13
I speak for the entire
Genovian parliament...
:20:15
and the royal family.
:20:17
And I speak for this family.
:20:19
Excuse me...
:20:20
I don't have a family
with either one of you...
:20:23
because you ignored me
for 15 years...
:20:25
and you lied to me.
:20:27
Families don't do stuff
like that, OK?
:20:33
[ Footsteps going upstairs ]
:20:34
Where is she going?
:20:35
The tower.
:20:37
Mia, you can't run
from everything!
:20:40
She has a tower?
:20:42
HELEN: Please?
Just come down from there.
:20:45
MIA:
Most kids hope for a car...
:20:47
for their 16th birthday,
not a country!
:20:51
Just make yourself comfortable.
:20:54
[ Fat Louie hisses ]
:20:55
HELEN:
This is getting us nowhere!
:20:57
Talk to me.
:20:59
I can't talk to you right now.
:21:01
I'm late for a meeting
with my guidance counselor.
:21:03
I'm late for a meeting
with Spain and Portugal.
:21:07
HELEN: I have a thought.
:21:08
Mia promises to attend
princess lessons...
:21:11
until your ball.
:21:13
Well, it's not my ball.
:21:15
It's Genovia's annual
Independence Day ball.
:21:18
I'm sorry.
:21:20
Mia promises neither
to accept nor reject...
:21:23
your offer to be royal
until this grand ball...
:21:27
and then
she makes her decision.
:21:29
Now, can you
both live with that?
:21:39
It seems I have no option.
:21:42
[ Sighs ] If I have to.
:21:44
But I want not one word of this
until that evening.
:21:48
Is that understood?
:21:49
Duh.
:21:50
CLARISSE: The press
would have a field day.
:21:52
Well. Let's not keep
Spain and Portugal waiting.
:21:56
[ Car horn honks ]
:21:57
I'll be 16 this year...
:21:59
and my mom traded two paintings
for a 1966 Mustang.