Notting Hill Film Review

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Notting Hill is a film directed by Roger Michell and PolyGram film studios and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film stars Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Rhys Ifans, Tim McInnerny and Gina McKee. The film was made in 1999 and runs for about 124 minutes.

Notting Hill is one of those films you see in a “must-see” chart. I had no idea what it was about; therefore I didn’t know what to expect. It is a romantic comedy and its tagline is ‘Can the most famous film star in the world fall for just an ordinary guy?’ The movie shows that love can conquer even the largest divides in social standards. It also shows the effect on celebrities when their privacy is compromised by tabloid journalism.

Notting Hill is the story of a globally famous actress who attempts to have a normal relationship with a normal man. William Thacker (Hugh Grant) an average Portobello bookshop owner, who is stuck in the daily grind of his life, opens the movie by ______ on the way to the travel bookshop that he owns. Whilst at work, the Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) walks in to his shop. After buying a book and leaving, Thacker assumes she has walked out of his life for good, leaving him to continue his repetitious, normal routine.  In an unexpected twist in events, Anna Scott ends up in his small home across the street. He is genuinely mortified, but his attempts at making conversation are ___ when  Anna disarms him with an impulsive kiss before breezing out of the door. Without realising it, William’s tidy little life had begun to change.

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What happens next seems rather improbable, but no more improbable than real life. Anna invites him to her hotel suite in the Ritz where he discovers she is a much in demand centrepiece of a congregation of press. He is stuck under the supervision of her manager while pretending to be from Horse and Hound magazine interviewing her on a film he’s never seen. He then invites her to accompany him to his sister’s birthday party, which she surprisingly accepts. Once she arrives, everyone is stunned about having a celebrity in their midst, but soon get over it and she ...

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