A classic boy meets girl story, where you can't help but root for a seemingly impossible couple to end up together. Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts' charming performances and undeniable chemistry really put it over the top!
Notting Hill
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 1999
- · 124m
Director
Roger Michell
Cast
Julia Roberts,
Hugh Grant,
Gina McKee,
Tim McInnerny,
Rhys Ifans,
Emma Chambers
Genre
Romance,
Comedy,
Drama
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. 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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100
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
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.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
It comes as a bonus that this romantic comedy is one of the rare pictures of its type that actually is about something -- the double-edged sword of celebrity.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Blithe and exhilarating romantic comedy.
91
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
A pure, sweet romance that moves along with bouncy comedy and a touch of grown-up realism and rue.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
It's pure fluff, but as irresistible as cotton candy.
90
Film.com by Norman Green
It's irresistible.
88
USA Today by Susan Wloszczyna
Its deadpan wit, ingenious fairy-tale premise and superbly accomplished cast will leave you feeling positively oxygenated.
88
Chicago Tribune by Marc Caro
It's funny, sympathetic, mostly smart, and it boasts a likable cast of characters led by two performers who have star power and know how to use it.
82
Mr. Showbiz by Eleonore Snow
A smart, sometimes pissingly funny romantic comedy that is also oddly unmoving and predictable in spots.
80
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
In the end, the movie works because Grant and Roberts are disarming geniuses at playing themselves -- and then some.
80
Variety by Derek Elley
Has buckets to spare of that rarest screen commodity — genuine, engaging charm.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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.
75
San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
The deft, hilarious Notting Hill finds Grant's dour-droll-deprecating affliction at its most dead-on.
70
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
At once a light comedy and a reasonably serious meditation on the perils of fame.
70
The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps
It may boil down to little more than a minor variation on Four Weddings' formula, but it's an interesting and entertaining one.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
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
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
A smartly cast and consistently amusing romantic comedy.
50
L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor
The result is two films: a big, dreary star vehicle that sags whenever its leads spend quality time together, and a mettlesome British caper whose nutsosecondary characters walk away with the movie.
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