Notting Hill

Constantly Fun and Intelligence

The Story:

William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is a shy London bookseller who has never had much luck with women. When Hollywood star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) wanders into his shop, he is transfixed, but doesn’t expect to see her again.

But coincidence brings them together again, and soon the unlikely couple are falling in love, and must deal with the problems of a relationship between a star and an ordinary guy.

Apparently, being together with the world’s most wanted woman is not easy for William – neither around your closest friends, nor in front of the all-devouring press.

Release Date: May 21, 1999 (wide)
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Directed by: Roger Michell (My Night with Reg, Changing Lanes, Venus)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers
Budget: $42,000,000
Gross Revenue: $363,889,678 (worldwide), $116,089,678 (US)

Reviews:

Eat, Pray, Love is kinda boring, while Valentine’s Day isn’t that original either, makes me missed the old Julia Roberts’ romantic comedy. One of the best Julia Roberts’ movies is Notting Hill, which ironically is not a Hollywood movie, but a British production.

The main plot of this movie is how the most desirable woman in the world – a Hollywood superstar, can fall in love to an ordinary British guy. William Thacker is just a bookseller, he’s shy, not too handsome, and not rich either. With a series of coincidences he can meet Anna Scott, and doesn’t take long for them to love each other.

Sounds familiar? Well, that’s because many of nowadays movies are using the same formula as Notting Hill. The only different is, while in other movies usually the “ordinary” guy is kinda stupid, unnatural, sometimes even ridiculous, in this movie the protagonist is actually sweet. William Thacker might be doesn’t have something special or extraordinary about him or his job, but everybody can feel that he’s a warm, kind and a loving person.

As a rom-com, the jokes in Notting Hill also smart and “clean”. There are some dirty moments of course, but they are far from vulgar. While the dialogue also well written and creates some memorable scenes that won’t easily forgotten. We can feel what Anna felt when she said “l’m also just a girl…standing in front of a boy….asking him to love her.”

As far as I remember, besides with Richard Gere, Julia Roberts can creates a best chemistry with Hugh Grant. To bad that these two is never paired again in any other movie.

And don’t forget that Notting Hill also comes with beautiful soundtracks. When You Say Nothing at All (Ronan Keating), You’ve Got a Way (Shania Twain), I Do (98 Degrees) or How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (Al Green), all come in the right moment of the movie.

Once again, this is a British movie. And speaking of England, I happen to know a good company in Witshire, Spire SEO. This SEO Salisbury company will helps you to improve your website’s ranking in the search engines’ natural/organic search results. Try it!

My Rating: B+

IMDb user rating: 6.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 82%

Metacritic:66/100

Yahoo! critics: B-

Yahoo! users: B

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