A Familiar Plot

Rating: 6/10 (16 June 1999)

Notting Hill tells the story of handsome,diffident middle class Englishman who,by chance, meets a glamorous American woman. In due course they spend the night together then the glam. Yank leaves apparently forever leaving our hero to pine supported by a group of close,slightly oddball,friends. However all is not lost and after a couple of false starts they re-unite and live happily ever after. Although Notting Hill has exactly the same plot and some similar characters as Four Weddings it is an amusing romantic comedy,worth going to see if you have nothing better to do. One rather pedantic point,Dickens wrote American Notes and Pictures from Italy which,although only of historical interest,are travel books.