A Romance to bind two Countries

Rating: 9/10 (15 November 2010)

Julie Roberts to me is not the star of this film, she is "A Star In The Film" but Hugh Grant soars in this romantic comedy. Hugh plays a small travel bookstore owner in London who lives in the heart of all the action, but his life is anything but outstanding. His wife had left him for another, and his ho-hum life could be called the pits. His gay assistant/clerk has some great lines that come across at the right time. Julie Roberts had the easiest job: playing a rich celebrity who has no private life style (be careful for what you ask for kids) with the Press hounding her and any little thing that happens to her. This movie could be taken directly out of the grocery store check-out lines tabloids. Hugh's character interplays with each of the side characters so nicely that you experience it as if it was your life, and your friends that you are watching on the big screen. This is in my top "5" all-time Romantic films to date.