Notting Hill

Starring: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts Director: Roger Michell Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 15th November, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Dutch

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Notting Hill is a romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts, set in the Notting Hill district of London. The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis & directed by Roger Michell. Supporting actors included Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, Rhys Ifans, Tim McInnery & Gina McKee. William Thacker runs a bookshop in Notting Hill, London. Witty, cultivated & handsome, he hasnt coped well with his divorce & is currently sharing a flat with an eccentric Welsh wannabe artist named Spike. Thacker encounters world famous Hollywood actress Anna Scott during her trip to London when she enters his shop to buy a book. Shortly after they accidentaly collide in the street causing William to spill orange juice down both of them. He offers his flat as a place for them to get changed. Anna accepts & they retire to his digs. Right from the start their love affair seems to be doomed. Although Anna feels at home with his circle of friends, William more & more realizes that he is not cut out to be a famous actresss boyfriend. Posters Of Notting Hill

They dont really make many romantic comedies like Notting Hill anymore, blissfully romantic, sincerely sweet, & not grounded in any reality whatsoever. Pure fairy tale, & with a huge debt to Roman Holiday, Notting Hill ponders what would happen if a beautiful, world-famous person were to suddenly drop into your life unannounced & promptly fall in love with you. Thats the crux of the situation for William Thacker , who owns a travel bookshop in Londons fashionable Notting Hill district. Hopelessly ordinary , William is going about his life when renowned movie star Anna Scott walks into his bookstore & into his heart. After another contrived meeting involving spilled orange juice, William & Anna share a spontaneous kiss , & soon both are smitten. The question is, of course, can William & Anna reconcile his decidedly commonplace bookseller existence & her lifestyle as a jet-setting, paparazzi-stalked celebrity? Smartly scripted by Richard Curtis & directed by Roger Michell , Notting Hill is hardly realistic, but as wish fulfilment & a romantic comedy, its irresistible. True, Roberts doesnt really have to stretch very far to play a big-time actress who makes $15 million per movie, but shes more winning & relaxed than shes been in years, & Grant is sweetly understated as a man blindsided by love. Together, in moments of quiet, theyre a charming couple, & you can feel her craving for real love & his awe & amazement at the wonderful person for whom he has fallen. The only blight on the film is its overbearing pop soundtrack, though Elvis Costellos heart-wrenching version of She gets poignant exposure. With Rhys Ifans as Grants scene-stealing, slovenly housemate & Alec Baldwin in a sly, perfectly cast cameo.

Hugh Grant is an English actor. He was born Hugh John Mungo Grant in London, England & tends to play the archetypal Englishman & is of Scottish ancestry. After attending Latymer Upper School for boys, Grant studied English at New College, Oxford. He made his film debut in 1982 with Oxford-financed Privileged. Television came later, in 1985. One of his first major film roles was in The Remains of the Day & he became simultaneously known as the partner of actress Elizabeth Hurley, but it was Four Weddings & a Funeral which turned him into a major star. Not long after gaining the starring role in Sense & Sensibility in 1995, Grant was arrested near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, having been caught having oral_sex with an Afro-American prostitute in a car. A public apology helped win back public support, but the break-up with Hurley came soon afterwards -- though they later got back together for a short time. Posters Of Hugh Grant

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