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Notting Hill [VHS] [1999]

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4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans, James Dreyfus
  • Directors: Roger Michell
  • Writers: Richard Curtis
  • Producers: Duncan Kenworthy, Eric Fellner, Mary Richards, Richard Curtis, Tim Bevan
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
  • Language English, Spanish
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 4 Front Video
  • VHS Release Date: 7 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004R79Y
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,974 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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They don't really make many romantic comedies like Notting Hill anymore--blissfully romantic, sincerely sweet, and not grounded in any reality whatsoever. Pure fairy tale, and 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 and promptly fall in love with you. That's the crux of the situation for William Thacker (Hugh Grant), who owns a travel bookshop in London's fashionable Notting Hill district. Hopelessly ordinary (well, as ordinary as you can be when you're Hugh Grant), William is going about his life when renowned movie star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) walks into his bookstore and into his heart. After another contrived meeting involving spilled orange juice, William and Anna share a spontaneous kiss (big suspension of disbelief required here), and soon both are smitten. The question is, of course, can William and Anna reconcile his decidedly commonplace bookseller existence and her lifestyle as a jet-setting, paparazzi-stalked celebrity? (Take a wild guess at the answer.) Smartly scripted by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and directed by Roger Michell (Persuasion), Notting Hill is hardly realistic, but as wish fulfilment and a romantic comedy, it's irresistible. True, Roberts doesn't really have to stretch very far to play a big-time actress who makes $15 million per movie, but she's more winning and relaxed than she's been in years, and Grant is sweetly understated as a man blindsided by love. Together, in moments of quiet, they're a charming couple, and you can feel her craving for real love and his awe and amazement at the wonderful person for whom he has fallen. The only blight on the film is its overbearing pop soundtrack, though Elvis Costello's heart-wrenching version of "She" gets poignant exposure. With Rhys Ifans as Grant's scene-stealing, slovenly housemate and Alec Baldwin in a sly, perfectly cast cameo. --Mark Englehart

Synopsis
A famous actress in disguise in London runs into a divorced bookstore owner. They strike up a friendship with each other as they each find something that was previously missing from their own lives.

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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzling film. Dire DVD., 3 Dec 2005
This review is from: Notting Hill [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
The Main Feature: A delicious romantic comedy - one of the earliest and unquestionably one of the best. Hugh Grant plays the floppy-haired and quietly charming William Thacker who owns a Travel Bookstore in Notting Hill. Julia Roberts stars as, well, herself - the most famous film star in the world. One day, the two collide. What follows is a wonderfully soothing tale of romance; where divine comedy is sprinkled with poignant reflection, and where both leads and supporting actors are excellent, often beguiling. This is one of those rare films that's as good the first time you curl up with it on a Friday night, as it is when you're laughing (and crying) at it for the twenty-seventh time on a drizzly Sunday afternoon.

Highlights: A fabulous script that deftly weaves humour with occasional melancholy - no better showcased than the ill-fated guinea foul meal. William's Welsh lodger, Spike - "well chosen briefs I'd say; chicks love grey. Nice, firm buttocks."! Elvis Costello's heart-wrenching version of `She' that opens and closes the film. Julia Roberts' smile and eyes - enchanting.

Overall Package/Extras: Disappointingly few extras - and even those are text based: a travel guide to Notting Hill and Cast and Filmmakers Biographies, both of which are far better done by London Tourism websites and IMDB...

The one disk is packaged in a boring, standard plastic DVD case. There is a thin accompanying booklet which contains more brief - and unremarkable - biographies of the cast.

Verdict: Dazzling film. Dire DVD. Fortunately, the former is that good that it still makes this DVD fantastic value.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best romantic films ever!! , 31 Jan 2007
By SJ SMART "Smartie" (London) - See all my reviews
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I love this film! I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies but this one is an exception. I love the story because I kind of hope that Julia Roberts will walk in to my shop and fall for me! I think this is the key to the success of the story, that a Hollywood A-list celebrity meets an ordinary guy and they have a relationship. Not likely to happen but fun to imagine.

There are some great performances throughout, set in a great part of London and its full of laughs! I love the ending in the press conference when Hugh's character tells her he has made a mistake and wants her back in "coded" language which the Journalists slowly cotton on to and the place errupts! A great heart warming film. It needs 10 stars!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars classic!, 1 Sep 2006
By S. Firth (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
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how anyone can say this film is bad is beyond me!

it's one of the best chick-flicks around and i love the film so much i've nearly worn out my tape! It's not really about Notting Hill it's about a person who lives there and falls in love with a hollywood star. Who cares that it doesnt have the Carnival in it.

Julia Roberts is one of my favourite actresses, she's briliant and, although i dont class Hugh Grant as one of my faves, he's so good in this film as the hopeless Will! I love Spike and Will's sister. Spike just cracks me up all the time.

i just love this film and definately think you should buy it, ignore the bad reviews - or take them into account but dont believe them! this film is fabulous!
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