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 ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans, James DreyfusDirected By: Roger Michell
Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet WalterDirected By: Ang Lee
When it was released in 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral quickly became a huge international success, pulling in the kind of audiences most British films only dream of. It's proof that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. In terms of plot, the title pretty much says it all. Revolving around… well, four weddings and a funeral (though not in that order), the film follows Hugh ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John HannahDirected By: Mike Newell
Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Renee Zellweger, Honor Blackman, Embeth Davidtz, Colin Firth, Hugh GrantDirected By: Sharon Maguire
Music & Lyrics is frothy and sweet, like the top of a perfect cappuccino shared a deux. Hugh Grant is a self-professed "happy has-been," playing his befuddled, adorable persona more spot-on than he has since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Alex, former member of an '80s pop band who years later is playing at water parks and high school reunions, he's settled into a life of ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Campbell Scott, Brad Garrett, Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Kristen JohnstonDirected By: Marc Lawrence
Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures VideoStarring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim BroadbentDirected By: Beeban Kidron
The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence ...
Manufacturer: Vision Video Ltd.Starring: Hugh Grant|Toni Collette|Rachel WeiszDirected By: Chris & Paul Weitz
Bridget Jones's Diary Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim BroadbentDirected By: Sharon Maguire, Beeban Kidron
Manufacturer: 4dvdStarring: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon CallowDirected By: James Ivory
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian HartDirected By: Chris Monger
