A man's (Hugh Grant) life changes when an international star (Julia Roberts) walks into his bookshop. (Learn more)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe (View All)
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Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe
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, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
5/28/99
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13
Running Time
123 mins. (V)
Locations
- London, England, UK
- Notting Hill, England
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$116,089,678
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Orange Audience Award award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best British Film award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Musical or Comedy award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1999 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
Distributor
- Universal
- Universal Pictures
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
