Notting Hill

Name: Notting Hill
Director: Roger Michell
Released: 1999

Roger Michell

1999

3.40

Synopsis

William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.

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Julia RobertsAnna Scott
Hugh GrantWilliam Thacker
Gina McKeeBella
Tim McInnernyMax
Rhys IfansSpike
Emma ChambersHoney
Hugh BonnevilleBernie
Richard McCabeTony
James DreyfusMartin
Dylan MoranRufus the Thief

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100
New York Daily News
The overall result is a romantic comedy that indulges fantasies, calms insecurities (can an ordinary bloke stack up?), and breaks and mends hearts with surgical precision.
80
Variety
Has buckets to spare of that rarest screen commodity — genuine, engaging charm.
80
Washington Post
In the end, the movie works because Grant and Roberts are disarming geniuses at playing themselves -- and then some.
75
San Francisco Examiner
The deft, hilarious Notting Hill finds Grant's dour-droll-deprecating affliction at its most dead-on.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is bright, the dialogue has wit and intelligence, and Roberts and Grant are very easy to like. By the end, as much as we're aware of the ancient story machinery groaning away below deck, we're smiling.
70
Los Angeles Times
A smartly cast and consistently amusing romantic comedy.
70
TV Guide Magazine
Roberts fans will, of course, be delighted to see her in a role that plays to all her strengths -- fresh-faced looks, charming gangliness, air of infinite approachability -- and neatly sidesteps her glaring inability to act by having her more or less play herself.
70
The A.V. Club
It may boil down to little more than a minor variation on Four Weddings' formula, but it's an interesting and entertaining one.

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