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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)

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Reviews Counted: 20

Fresh: 11

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: A group of Welsh villagers band together to defend their town's honor during WWI when an English mapmaker comes to town and declares their local "mountain" to be fifteen feet too short to qualify.... A group of Welsh villagers band together to defend their town's honor during WWI when an English mapmaker comes to town and declares their local "mountain" to be fifteen feet too short to qualify. The locals will stop at nothing to keep the befuddled cartographer in town long enough to change his mind. [More]

Starring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice

Starring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart, Kenneth Griffith, Jack Walters, Hugh Vaughn, Tudor Vaughn, Robert Pugh, Robert Blythe, Garfield Morgan, Lisa Palfrey, Iuean Rhys, Anwen Williams, David Lloyd Meredith, Dafydd Wyn Roberts, Fraser Cains, Harry Kretchmer, Howell Evans, Maisie McNeice

Director: Christopher Monger

Director: Christopher Monger
Screenwriter: Christopher Monger
Producer: Sarah Curtis, Sally Hibbin, Robert Jones, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Composer: Stephen Endelman

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Sep 7, 1999

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  • The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain
  • Comedy favorite Hugh Grant (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY) stars as a young man who offends an entire town by declaring their mountain -- a prized landmark -- to be a "hill." But soon he finds the eccentric locals, led by a witty innkeeper (Colm Meaney -- STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION) will stop at nothing to defend their honor! While the townspeople rally around their "mountain," a fiery young woman (Tara Fitzgerald -- SIRENS) charms the puzzled out-of-towner into seeing things their way! You'll be elevated by laughter as the hilarious townspeople rise to the occasion -- and the bewildered visitor stumbles into love when he least expects it!
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    Pleasant, but unexciting.

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    Irresistible comedy set in a quaint Welsh village.

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