Romance Between An Actress And A Bookseller

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 2012)

Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can it seems at Notting Hill. Notting Hill is a romantic comedy set in London.The film stars Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee and Hugh Bonneville.The screenplay was by Richard Curtis;it was produced by Duncan Kenworthy; and directed by Roger Michell.
William Thacker is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a house with an eccentric Welsh friend,Spike. One day, William is minding the store when in strolls Anna Scott, a lovely and well-known actress from the United States who is in London working on a film. She buys a book from William, and she is polite and charming in the way a famous actress would be with a star-struck sales clerk. Their relationship would logically end there, if William didn't run out a few minutes later to buy some juice. While dashing back to the shop, he bumps into Anna on the street, spilling juice all over her blouse. Since he lives nearby, William politely offers to let her stop by his house to clean up; since William seems harmless enough, Anna agrees. When Anna has to stop back to pick up a bag she left at William's house, they kiss just in time for Spike to show up. A romance slowly blooms as his friends and family wonder out loud what he's doing dating a movie star.
This movie is funny, sympathetic, mostly smart, and it boasts a likable cast of characters led by two performers - Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant - who have star power and know how to use it.While we never doubt the outcome of how the film will end,it offers an enjoyable narrative journey that endears and entertains, with genuine warmth and grace.In short,Notting Hill can be described to be a thoroughly pleasurable emotional thrill ride.