Notting Hill

Theatrical Release Date: 1999 05 28 (USA)

UPC: 025192064029

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations]

Summary: Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can -- at least for a while, it seems -- in Notting Hill. William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a house with an eccentric Welsh friend, Spike (Rhys Ifans). One day, William is minding the store when in strolls Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), 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 (not to mention the world at large) wonder out loud what he's doing dating a movie star. Notting Hill reunites Hugh Grant with producer Duncan Kenworthy and screenwriter Richard Curtis, who previously worked together on the international hit Four Weddings And A Funeral. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Romance

Awards: Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best British Film – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Orange Audience Award – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Notting Hill

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/11/2002

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 124 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Chapter List
1. Main Titles- She [:23]
2. William's Notting Hill [:07]
3. Surreal, But Nice [:06]
4. Horse & Hound [1:49]
5. Birthday Party [:00]
6. A Date with Anna [1:49]
7. A Nasty Surprise [6:48]
8. She's Gone [1:00]
9. She's Back [7:57]
10. She's His [3:03]
11. Rude Awakening [6:57]
12. Ain't No Sunshine [2:48]
13. Hope on the Heath [7:09]
14. Just a Girl... [7:57]
15. The Right Decision [:07]
16. Press Conference [1:57]
17. The Meaning of My Life is...She [1:10]
18. End Titles [3:23]

Lucia Bozzola

Notting Hill not only featured a match made in 1990s romantic comedy heaven, but also used that star wattage to comment on celebrity absurdity. Adding a different spin to the American beauty-meets-British boy formula from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), the pairing of Hugh Grant's bookseller William with Julia Roberts' movie star Anna Scott becomes a humorously poignant commentary on the unreal life led by stars such as Roberts and Grant. Naturally the tabloid press gets in the way, as do Anna's diva tendencies, but William's down-to-earth, eccentric version of reality (complete with Rhys Ifans' scene-stealing roommate-from-hell Spike) ultimately wins a place in Anna's world. Roberts' low key performance and Anna's awareness of fame's ephemeral nature allow her to be more than simply the lustrous object of William's bumbling desire. Opening strongly the week after Star Wars: Episode 1-The Phantom Menace was released, Notting Hill went on to become the first of Roberts' two $100 million-plus summer romantic comedy hits (along with Runaway Bride), and breathed new life into Grant's tabloid-marred career as a wittily self-deprecating leading man. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Alec Baldwin  Actor 
Emily Mortimer  Actor 
Trevor Jones  Composer (Music Score) 
Tim Bevan  Executive Producer 
Richard Curtis  Executive Producer 
Richard Curtis  Screenwriter 
Eric Fellner  Executive Producer 
Duncan Kenworthy  Producer 
Roger Michell  Director 
Julia Roberts  Actor 
Hugh Grant  Actor 
Hugh Bonneville  Actor 
Emma Chambers  Actor 
James Dreyfus  Actor 
Rhys Ifans  Actor 
Tim McInnerny  Actor 
Gina McKee  Actor 
Richard McCabe  Actor 
Dylan Moran  Actor 
Roger Frost  Actor 
Julian Rhind-Tutt  Actor 
Lorelei King  Actor 
John Shrapnel  Actor 
Clarke Peters  Actor 
Arturo Venegas  Actor 
Mischa Barton  Actor 
Henry Goodman  Actor 
Melissa Wilson  Actor 
Emma Bernard  Actor 
Sam West  Actor 
Ann Beach  Actor 

Country: UK,USA