Nothing Here

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 1999)

American movie star pops into spasmodically-blinking Hugh Grant's little travel book shop in a suburb of London. Soon, they dine with friends, have it on, and get caught off guard by paparazzi flash bulbs--something with which Mr. Grant is familiar--but not without getting to know one another. Acting: B-; premise: F+. You know this one's full of itself when slo-mo shots and pics of Julia illuminate and fade during Elvis Costello's spewing opener, 'She'. The ones to watch aren't the headliners (Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Tim McInnerny), especially the nutty flatmate (Rhys Ifans). These actors could have made a good movie without Richard Curtis and Roger Mitchell, called 'Four Dinner Guests and a Welshman'. Tee hee.