Notting Hill (1999)

• Year: 1999
• Released: 28 May 1999
• Country: United Kingdom, United States
• Adwords: Won 1 BAFTA Award11 wins & 17 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Notting_Hill
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/notting-hill
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish, French
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 124 min
• Writer: Richard Curtis
• Director: Roger Michell
• Cast: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe
• Keywords: friendship, london, england, movie business, new love, wheelchair,

	7.2/10
	68/100
	83% – Critics
	79% – Audience

Notting Hill Storyline

William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a house with an eccentric Welsh friend, Spike (Rhys Ifans). One day, William is minding the store when in strolls Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), a lovely and well-known actress from the United States who is in London working on a film. She buys a book from William, and she is polite and charming in the way a famous actress would be with a star-struck sales clerk. Their relationship would logically end there, if William didn’t run out a few minutes later to buy some juice. While dashing back to the shop, he bumps into Anna on the street, spilling juice all over her blouse. Since he lives nearby, William politely offers to let her stop by his house to clean up; since William seems harmless enough, Anna agrees. When Anna has to stop back to pick up a bag she left at William’s house, they kiss — just in time for Spike to show up. A romance slowly blooms as his friends and family (not to mention the world at large) wonder out loud what he’s doing dating a movie star.

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Warm, charming and pleasant

This film was surprisingly good, not my favourite romantic comedy in the world, and personally I think Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral are better. But it is a good film, thanks to the strong performances, fresh script and the film’s look. While not laugh out loud funny, Notting Hill is nonetheless warm and charming. The script is fresh, sometimes funny, sometimes insightful. The part where Anna says “I am just a girl, standing in front of a boy, waiting for him to love her”, may be cringe worthy to some people, but for me no matter how clichéd it is it shows a vulnerable side to Anna’s character. The film is based on love revolved around unequal social standing, William being diffident and unsuccessful, Anna being the complete opposite. The photography is fabulous and the direction is excellent. Hugh Grant is charming as William and Julia Roberts is positively luminous as Anna, and the two have strong chemistry. Out of the supporting performers, Rhys Ifans stands out in a very zany turn as Spike. The music is lovely too. All in all, this is very warm, charming and pleasant, yeah the ending is predictable, but this is a well written and quite irresistible film. 8.5/10 Bethany Cox

Media goldfish bowl

Notting Hill is a neighborhood in London and it’s the title of a romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. Two of the most unlikely lovers you could ever imagine get together here.

Grant is the respectable, but somewhat dull proprietor of a bookstore in Notting Hill which specializes in travel books. It looks like he’s getting by, but truth be told Grant’s perfectly happy with just making enough to pay the bills and a little extra.

Back in the day after she retired from the screen for almost 50 years it was one of those urban legends in New York City to spot Greta Garbo out and about and you’d never know but when she might get a notion to stop into a bookstore like Grant’s. In this case Julia Roberts plays a movie star not unlike the real Julia Roberts. Garbo mysterious she’s not.

For if she was I doubt Hugh Grant would have considered approaching her. As for Roberts she’s looking at Grant as a bit of respite from her life in the media goldfish bowl. When she’s discovered it’s disaster for both of them.

Notting Hill is a nice romantic comedy with very believable leads in a fairy tale fantasy. I mean who doesn’t have a fantasy of wooing and winning some celebrity you might admire or be crushing out on. In that sense Notting Hill has a universal appeal.

In an unbilled part Alec Baldwin plays her boyfriend whom we learn little about factually. But he comes across as an egotistical fathead. One thing you’re certain of, no matter what happens with Grant, Roberts and Baldwin won’t be an item much longer.

Notting Hill, a nice romantic comedy/fantasy. May you win the celebrity of your desires.

Yuck

Not one for me, thanks. Julia Roberts is as obnoxious as ever and Hugh Grant overplays his stuttering goon character to the max. Even Rhys Ifans is an irritant and the whole thing plays out with a thick layer of cloying sentiment.