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Notting Hill Details

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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, a twelve year old boy. .. Read more

Starring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers
Director Roger Michell
Genres Comedy, Romance

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Notting Hill

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, a twelve year old boy. Marcus teaches Will that there is much more to life than loafing around in his London flat and worrying about the latest trends and fashions... Based on the best selling novel by Nick Hornby. 'Notting Hill' 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.

Starring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, Rhys Ifans
Director Roger Michell
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 59 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Collections 100 Rom-Coms
Genres Comedy, Romance
Language English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles Dutch
Released DVD: 15 Nov 1999
Production year: 1999
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (4) of Notting Hill

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    The Four Weddings team produced another smash with this charming tale about a bumbling bookshop owner (Hugh Grant) who falls for the “most famous actress in the world” (Julia Roberts). Inevitably, the course of true love is a bumpy road, with friends, family and flatmates getting in the way, but that's the cue for a series of screamingly funny scenarios. Saturated with wit and well directed by Roger Michell, the film was bashed by sceptics for its fluffiness and lack of realism (for a racially mixed area of London, there's not a black face to be seen). But, if you can accept the context as 100 per cent white middle class, with a light-hearted commentary on the nature of celebrity, it's an intensely enjoyable experience.

    • Radio Times
  • While it's hard to forget the cool, calculating mind set that shapes every second of this upfront attempt to repeat... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
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  • 8 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    I love it

    Ok, so I live there, and it's fabulously embarrassing to like this film. And the film itself has a totally unbelievable plot about an average guy meeting a Hollywood movie star.

    But it's great fun and really well done and London looks great. I think I'll go and lie down now.

      • A customer from Notting Hill, London
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  • 8 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    I love it

    Ok, so I live there, and it's fabulously embarrassing to like this film. And the film itself has a totally unbelievable plot about an average guy meeting a Hollywood movie star.

    But it's great fun and really well done and London looks great. I think I'll go and lie down now.

      • A customer from Notting Hill, London
  • News and features

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    Notting Hill

    Grant: 'I think I'm crazy'

    • 04 Oct 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 a bit crazy. I am deeply spoiled. In the bedroom of my trailer on a film, I insist they wash the duvet. It has to be a new duvet cover and pillowcases and they have to be washed at least seven times in non-bio powder. What kind of monster... Read more

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