Film Fan Site

Notting Hill

Date: 1999
Type: Romantic comedy
Rating: 5 Stars 5/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Duncan Kenworthy / Richard Curtis

Comment/Synopsis

This is a wonderful and entertaining gentle comedy of an English bookshop owner (Hugh Grant) who accidentaly meets and falls in love with a famous American actress (Julia Roberts). It is a well written study, by Richard Curtis, in how normality meets fame and also how other people respond to it. This is an excellent example of British romantic comedy thanks in no small way to the script by Richard Curtis.

Actors


Hugh GrantHugh Grant
Julia RobertsJulia Roberts
Hugh BonnevilleHugh Bonneville
Rhys IfansRhys Ifans
Tim McinneryTim McInnery
Emma ChambersEmma Chambers
Gina McKeeGina McKee
Emily MortimerEmily Mortimer
John ShrapnelJohn Shrapnel
Richard McCabe
Dylan Moran
Roger Frost
Lorelei King
Mischa Barton

Oscars

None
Quote
Hugh Grant: I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name.
Julia Roberts: I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
Production
Working Title FIlms
Notting Hill