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Summary: Movie to take you from the blues
Review: This movie will pull you from the depths and put a smile on your face. The supporting cast is what brings humor and reality to this movie. I love the book store employee and his droning on about Ringo Starr. Or the quirky sister. I saw this movie when it first came out with a friend, then dragged dh to it the next day. He laughed just as much as I did. Not your normal love/comedy. Bravo to the supporting characters!!
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Summary: THE film that made me think.,.. hmmm Hugh Grant, he's hot
Review: Very entertaining, touching film. Unusual in its premise, but still the basic boy meets girl/boy loses girl/boys gets girl kind of thing. not something that's going to change the world, certainly, but there are some nice touches here. Hugh's sister in the film provides a nice touch, as does his best friend--a woman--who is now in a wheelchair. The brownie competition is very cute as well.
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Summary: notting hill a great film
Review: In my opinion, I believe Julia Roberts is a natural and she is a great actor, even though some people disagree. I read the web site and a girl had a different oppinion about Julia Roberts. She believes Julia Roberts is not a good actor. To me Julia Roberts is a natural. She is different from other actors. She dosen't need make up, or other things on her to look nice. I've seen all Julia's movie's and she acts good in all of them. The best films were Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, and My Bes Friend's Wedding. I would like to add that I admire Julia Roberts because she plays many different rolls...
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Summary: I do not understand why people like this movie.
Review: Notting Hill is a horrible movie. Long, boring, completely unrealistic! This pacing is slow, the performances lackluster, the chemistry NONEXISTENT! The music, however, has to be the worst part of this really, really, really bad movie. I wouldn't wish this movie on my worst enemy.
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Summary: Love this movie
Review: I've seen this movie before on rental and completely recommend it. It has one of those hard hitting romantic endings like Pretty Woman, You've Got Mail and Random Harvest.
Though I don't recommend you buy it from Amazon. I received this movie along with several others from Amazon in a $364 order and it doesn't play. The other movies in this order play just fine but not this one. Over the years, I bought many books and tapes for myself and for others as gifts, and this is the first time I've had a complaint with Amazon.
Looking through Amazon's return page and policy tells me that if the dvd was opened, I can't return it. And then the return pages proceed to take me around in circles. Of course, the dvd has been opened, how else was I to find it won't play? I looked around for a phone number to discuss this with Amazon, but I could not find one.
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Summary: Julia Roberts' best work by far
Review: I am not a Julia Roberts fan. I don't think she is a great actress, and I don't find her particularly attractive. I usually don't like her movies because I don't think she is effective. "The Pelican Brief" and "My Best Friend's Wedding" would have been much better without Julia as the lead actress. However, she is great here, even if it is Hugh Grant who makes the movie go. This movie is smart, romantic, and quite touching. Grant is the owner of a small travel bookstore who meets Roberts (playing a movie icon) when she comes in to shop. Throughout the movie, they hook up, and split up a couple of times, mostly on Julia's whims. What makes the movie, is the characters. Roberts is not as shallow and transparent as usual. Grant is funny, especially since the movie is shot in his native England. The various British accents make the movie lots of fun to see. Rhys Ifans as the slovenly roommate of Grant is a hoot and steals each scene he's in. I also loved Grant's sister, and the birthday party scene where Grant shows up with Roberts is a classic. The plot is no surprise, but the characters and the dialogue make this a great movie to watch. If you are a fan of Julia's, you must see this. If not, the other characters in the film should help, especially since they are relative unknowns and I found that to be refreshing.
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Summary: priceless
Review: I really enjoyed this film no matter what other may say. This film has everything, sad parts, funny parts. It's about two people who meet and fall in love but somehow can't find themselves being together. A true boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl is too scared of what other may think and runs but comes back in the end. I love the other characters in this film so much and make this film so enjoyable, like his weird sister, or his roommate who is a complete moron but is so hiliarious!!
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Summary: Is Notting Hill really boring?
Review: Maybe we often say, "This movie is boring," or "That's the worst movie I've ever watched," or "That's nothing. I don't like it!", or "The actor or actress is like an amateur," to a movie, including this one. But when we think it again and again, we will realize that most of our lives are often more boring than that movie. If a movie director make a movie about our daily lives just the way they are, for example, maybe the audiences will say that the movie of our lives is more boring than the most boring movie. Take this movie, Notting Hill, for example. Imagine that you have your own little bookstore in a small town and suddenly, out of nowhere, your favorite movie star or artist drops in and build a more than usual relationship with you. We can't say that it happens everyday in your life unless - maybe - if you open a store in the middle of Hollywood. Furthermore, the actor/actress trusts you as a best friend and even a very special friend. It's a lie if you say that it's just an ordinary occasion. You'll try the best shot you have, try to make him or her feel comfortable near you but at the same time, you're not so sure whether it's a reality or just a fairy tale. You want to show him or her the real you but you're worried that it maybe will change his or her mind about you. It's not an ordinary boring life, isn't it? And the relationship are getting closer and closer, through the sweetest days and heaviest storms, both of you are falling in love to each other, but your pride says that it's impossible. Is it a boring life? Even, when she or he says, "I'm just a girl/boy in front of a boy/girl and I ask you to love me," can you still say that it's boring? Watch carefully when William swallows his pride and tries hard to stop Anna for leaving him for home. Watch carefully when William asks Anna to stay because he finally realizes that both of them are unseparatable. Can you say that it's boring? Even, it (very) rarely happens in the middle of Hollywood, a famous star found a TRUE love in an ordinary person and decide to live happily ever after together. You can't say it's boring! Just imagine Pierce Brosnan holds you tight or Julia Roberts sits on your lap and he/she says that he/she has found a true love in you, you'll probably say that you're blessed! One more, this movie gives a message that even a famous star or artist is just an ordinary person. She/he needs a privacy just like us, needs her/his peaceful life, need to be respected and to respect, and all things that an ordinary person, just like you and me, needs. So, give respects if we want to be respected by others. Finally, before you judge that a movie is boring, compare it to your own life. Be cautious, it's possible that your life is more boring than it. However, if you know well, and your friends or neighbors confirm that your life is extraordinary and better than the movie, you may say that a movie is boring than your life.
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Summary: ugh....I can't believe people like this movie!
Review: Julia [is unacceptable] (as always), Hugh Grant plays the same bumbling but charming idiot he plays in every movie... SO predictable! There is no need for a love story to be soooo sappy and predictable! See Untamed Heart or Inventing the Abbotts for good love stories with an acceptable dose of sappiness and a LOT more reality. See Natural Born Killers or True Romance for my kinda love stories...!
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Summary: Fine, very fine romantic comedy
Review: Despite being overexposed to the Julia Roberts phenomenon, I think this was a safe but very wise choice on her part, to pair off with Hugh Grant in this glossy little charmer. She has never been more attractive, yet her role is not far off the mark in real life, as opposed to Hugh, who in real life gets to screw some of the most incredible women in existence at the drop of a hat. I enjoyed Four Weddings very much as well, but I tend to like this more. The circle of friends and urban setting are very appealing, and seeing Hugh on his home turf helps us forget that despite his riches he still had to troll for the best in life on Sunset Strip. Women of the world take note.
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