What remains true throughout is the enrapturing spell this sparkling entertainment casts upon the audience.
Notting Hill (1999)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:80
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Charming performances provide romance aplenty.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant forge memorable chemistry in this charmer about two very different people--William, an unassuming bookstore owner in London's Notting Hill section, and Anna, a... Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant forge memorable chemistry in this charmer about two very different people--William, an unassuming bookstore owner in London's Notting Hill section, and Anna, a Hollywood actress--who, against the odds, fall in love. After Anna wanders into William's shop while filming on location in London, the two share an instant attraction and find themselves attempting to forge a normal relationship despite Anna's megawatt star power. Screenwriter Richard Curtis (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) has crafted a traditional romantic comedy that is surprisingly frank in its depiction of the lives of the rich and famous and the price they pay for success. [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, Rhys Ifans, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, James Dreyfus
Director: Roger Michell
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Duncan Kenworthy, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Screenwriter: Richard Curtis
Composer: Trevor Jones
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Reviews for Notting Hill
I recommend the movie because it is so beautifully written and performed.
What distinguishes the film is its oft-forlorn, last-day-of-summer-camp quality.
All the other supporting players are British television stars and all rise to the occasion of this big-budget feature film.
The movie-star-playing-a-movie-star-who-wants-to-be-a-real-person conceit also has an odd, chilling effect on Julia Roberts, whose appeal, overwhelmingly, is based on her seeming just like the rest of us.
A romantic-comedy charmer in which you genuinely care about the partners-in-romance.
Every time it starts to get really good, every time it reaches a romantic or emotional high, the soundtrack chimes in and ruins the scene with invariably intrusively and often downright awful songs.
The movie is bright, the dialogue has wit and intelligence, and Roberts and Grant are very easy to like.
Surprisingly light and fun overall, "Notting Hill" is good solid entertainment.
This is romantic comedy in an old-fashioned sense, where the pleasures come more from a zestful staging than from foolish details like whether the relationship is 'realistic.'
With lead actors like that, Notting Hill doesn't need a cast of annoying supporting characters, but it's got them.
As exquisitely directed by Roger Michell and smartly scripted by Richard Curtis, the movie easily transcends its highly contrived setup.
Notting Hill is clever, funny, romantic - and oh, yes, reminiscent of Four Weddings and a Funeral.
With Notting Hill, you’ve got a romantic comedy that makes falling in love with a movie easy as pie!
Director Roger Michell isn't content to rest on his stars' slapstick laurels, mining instead the more sophisticated, if subversive, socio-romantic pratfalls in Curtis' script.
The humor of the film saves it from a completely trite and unsatisfying (nay, shall I say enraging) ending.
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