The Beautician and the Beast
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Made in 1997 staring Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Lisa Jakub, Ian McNeice, and Patrick Malahide

 This movie is a cross between Fran's TV series The Nanny and the the 1956 movie The King and I (staring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr) and I enjoyed every minute it.
 Due to a misunderstanding Joy (a beauty school instructor played by Fran) is hired as the science tutor for the four children of the widowed dictator of an eastern block country. Everyone in the country (except the Prime Minister) is terrified of the dictator. This  includes his eldest son, and heir to the throne, who would prefer to be an artist instead of the next dictator, and the dictator's eldest daughter who is in love with the leader of a rebellion although arrangements have been made for her to marry a prince when she is older. Though Joy doesn't know anything about science, her charming, flamboyant manner teaches her students and their father a thing or two about loosening up. She also comes in contact with some of the people of the country and has an interesting effect on them. The dictator is not completely please with the changes in his children, although he does recognize that they are the happiest they have ever been. And the Prime Minister does not like the changes in the dictator, and works to overcome the effects the new tutor has had on the dictator.

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There is one brief nude scene in which the King's youngest child runs nude through a party.


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The Beautician and the Beast, Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Lisa Jakub, Ian McNeice, and Patrick Malahide