Well done!

Rating: 9/10 (25 July 1999)

While I was watching the movie I had that question in my head: "can a movie make you feel like you are not in a movie?". Sounds like a pretty abstract question, doesn't it? But, at least for me, the answer is yes. Besides some lengthy "warming-up" scenes and the "a little bit to happy ending" (the last seconds before the final fade out) the movie was fascinating. Especially the funny and realistic acting of the two main characters (Anna Scott, Julia Roberts and William Thacker, Hugh Grant) who played their parts, the one of a prominent actress who is besides the business life "just a girl which stands there in front of someone to ask him to love her" and the one of a not at all known bookshop owner with a crazy fellow occupant and a bunch of ordinary friends very convincing. The viewer doesn't realize at any time that the whole thing is in fact just acted.
My overall rating is "very good".