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  • Grant: 'I think I'm crazy' - 4 October 2009
    -Hugh Grant is shocked at how life in Hollywood has changed him - he fears it has turned him crazy.- -The Notting Hill star admits movie superstardom has turned him into a "monster", and he now has a series of demands when filming.- - He says, "I think I have gone


  • Grant movies top favourites poll - 13 February 2009
    -Hugh Grant movies Love Actually and Four Weddings And A Funeral have come out top of a poll of romantic films that men secretly love to watch.- -The two hit Brit films, which were released in 2003 and 1994 respectively, proved popular in the survey conducted by Lov


  • Hugh Grant 'abandons Lost For Words' - 21 October 2008
    Hugh Grant has quit Working Title's forthcoming romantic comedy Lost For Words, due to "creative differences".-According to Variety, the actor walked way from the project when filmmakers could not create a script "everyone agreed on".-The film &#

Hugh Grant - what members say


  • Four Weddings And A Funeral
  • Four Weddings And A Funeral review by from Camden
    Rated - 5 stars A love story with a lotta laughs 25 September 2003
    ...gs and a Funeral is a light-hearted British romantic comedy of manners starring Hugh Grant as a much sought after bachelor who attends the weddings of all his friends but...  
  • Notting Hill
  • Notting Hill review by from WEST BROMWICH
    Rated - 4 stars 12 July 2004
    ...A rather appealing love story about the lowly owner (Hugh Grant) of a London-based travel book store whose happiness has slowly withered away until a well-known movie sta...  
  • Extreme Measures
  • Extreme Measures review by Bilko from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars An Overlooked Gem 14 June 2004
    ...As last, a film that breaks the Hugh Grant 'loveable bumbler' film role. It is a reasonable paced thriller, where Grant takes on a serious role, with a good performance f...  

Hugh Grant - filmography


  • Music And Lyrics on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Drew Barrymore,  Scott Porter
    Director: Marc Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    First you're hot, than your not... and then you're Alex Fletcher. So when the sizzlingest tween queen on the charts asks the has-been '80s pop sensation to write her a song, he grabs for another chance at stardom. Problem: Alex can say it with music but he sure can't say it with words. Enter Sophie ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 42,690 members
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  • American Dreamz on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Dennis Quaid,  Mandy Moore
    Director: Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the world of right-now, it seems as if literally everybody wants to be famous. Thanks to the global phenomenon of reality television, literally anyone can be. From the Director of American Pie & About a Boy, Hugh Grant has never been better as the sleazy, self-centred host of the hugely popular ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 10,296 members
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  • Love Actually on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Liam Neeson,  Colin Firth
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 76,575 members
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  • Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Liam Neeson,  Colin Firth
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 267 members
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  • About A Boy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Nicholas Hoult,  Toni Collette
    Director: Chris Weitz,  Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Boxset featuring the Bridget Jones saga (original film and sequel) together with another British comedy, ABOUT A BOY. BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY - Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty and neurotic thirty-something singleton who vows to take control of her life after being humiliated by handsome, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 28,055 members
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  • Two Weeks Notice on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Hugh Grant,  Alicia Witt
    Director: Marc Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Opposites attract in the directorial debut of screenwriter Marc Lawrence. Determined activist, lawyer, and idealist Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) has a noble reason for accepting a top position at Wade Realty Corporation. By taking the job, she can save the beloved community center in her Coney ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 21,625 members
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  • Bridget Jones's Diary on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Renee Zellweger,  Colin Firth,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Sharon Maguire
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the screen adaptation of BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, Helen Fielding's international best-selling phenomenon, documentary filmmaker (and real-life inspiration for the character Shazzer) Sharon Maguire has managed a rare feat - a film as captivating as the novel. Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 42,641 members
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  • Small Time Crooks (2000)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Tracey Ullman,  Woody Allen
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Woody Allen returns to his slapstick days with this comic romp, which centers on a small-time hood, Ray Winkler, who just can't catch a break. It's as if Virgil Starkwell (Allen's hysterically incompetent criminal mastermind from TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN) has finally gotten out of prison and is still ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,491 members
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  • Notting Hill on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Hugh Grant,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two features 'About A Boy' Will Freeman, a shallow thirty-something bachelor, lives a carefree life courtesy of his deceased father's fortune. Will is terrified of commitment and so decides that single mothers will make the easiest romantic targets... His world is turned around when he meets Marcus,..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 42,011 members
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  • Mickey Blue Eyes on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  James Caan,  Jeanne Tripplehorn
    Director: Kelly Makin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fish-out-of-water comedy tailor-made to the relaxed British mannerisms of star Grant. He stars as Michael Felgate, a dapper art auctioneer, whose romance with a school teacher entangles him in the workings of her mob family. While her father (Caan) accepts Michael wholeheartedly, a misunderstanding ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 7,328 members
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  • Extreme Measures on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Gene Hackman,  Sarah Jessica Parker
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At New York's Gramercy Hospital, a homeless man under the care of English doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) dies in a horrific manner. Soon both the patient and his file mysteriously disappear. The puzzled Luthan is told by a superior to forget about it and move on. Undaunted, Luthan conducts his own ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,104 members
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  • Nine Months on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Julianne Moore,  Tom Arnold
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Samuel Faulkner's (Hugh Grant) fruitful, happy life completely falls apart when long-time girlfriend Rebecca (Julianne Moore) suddenly announces she's pregnant. The thought of fatherhood and responsibility terrifies Samuel--who just happens to be a child psychologist. Although he does try hard to ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 6,249 members
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  • Sense And Sensibility on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Alan Rickman,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. Though John ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 10,982 members
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  • Sirens on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  Hugh Grant,  Elle Macpherson
    Director: John Duigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a young English minister (Hugh Grant) takes an Australian parish, his first assignment is to dissuade a local painter (Sam Neill) from showing a provocative painting. He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artist's home only to be smitten by three ravishing models posing, ironically, as ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,446 member
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  • Train To Hell on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Malcolm McDowell,  Tahnee Welch
    Director: Carlo U. Quinterio
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Fresh from completing a book investigating far-right extremism, Martin (Hugh Grant) finds himself falling in love on the Orient Express. But his trip on the European luxury train takes a sinister twist with an unexpected encounter with a bunch of neo-Nazi skinheads led by Malcolm McDowell. Frantic ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 29% from 155 members
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  • Bitter Moon on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Peter Coyote,  Emmanuelle Seigner,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,665 member
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  • Impromptu on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Judy Davis,  Julian Sands,  Emma Thompson
    Director: James Lapine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An exploration of the relationship between female writer George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin. Sand (Judy Davis) who dresses up as a man, becomes enraptured by Chopin (Hugh Grant). Life becomes rather amusing when Sand shows up as an unexpected party guest at the royal mansion of the Baron and ..read more »
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  • The Lady And The Highwayman on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Emma Samms,  Oliver Reed,  Claire Bloom
    Director: John Hough
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in the turbulent 17th Century reign of King Charles II, this film tells of Lady Panthea Vyre who has attracted the attention of the King and the eye of the folk hero and highwayman, Silver Blade, who, unknown to her, is really a relative of hers and rightful heir to the family estate and title. ..read more »
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  • Maurice on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Wilby,  Patrick Godfrey,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
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Hugh Grant facts

5 most recent films

Music And Lyrics - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Music And Lyrics - 3.0 stars
Music And Lyrics - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
American Dreamz - 2.5 stars
Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Sense And Sensibility - 3.5 stars
The Remains Of The Day - 3.5 stars
Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Bridget Jones's Diary - 3.5 stars
Four Weddings And A Funeral - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Did You Hear About the Morgans? - 4.0 stars
Train To Hell - 1.5 stars
American Dreamz - 2.5 stars
The Lady And The Highwayman - 2.5 stars
Sirens - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Colin Firth - 5 times - show films
Emma Thompson - 5 times - show films
Alan Rickman - 4 times - show films
Gemma Jones - 3 times - show films
Brad Garrett - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marc Lawrence - 5 times - show films
Richard Curtis - 2 times - show films
Sharon Maguire - 2 times - show films
Paul Weitz - 2 times - show films
Mike Newell - 2 times - show films