Notting Hill
Directed by	Roger Michell
Produced by	Duncan Kenworthy
Written by	Richard Curtis
Starring	Julia Roberts Hugh Grant
Music by	Trevor Jones
Cinematography	Michael Coulter
Editing by	Nick Moore
Distributed by	MCA-Universal PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release date(s)	May 13, 1999
Running time	124 min.
Language	English
Budget	$42 Million (USD)
IMDb profile

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Plot

William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is the owner of an independent bookstore which specializes in travel writing in Notting Hill, London. Witty, cultivated and handsome, he has not coped well with his divorce and is currently sharing his house with an eccentric Welsh wannabe artist named Spike (Rhys Ifans). Independent bookstore is a term used in to identify bookstores that are primarily owned and operated by local people. ... Travel writing is a literary genre related to the essay and to the guidebook. ... For the movie of the same name, see Notting_Hill_(movie) For Notting Hill in Melbourne, Australia, see Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the country. ...

Thacker encounters world famous Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) during her trip to London when she enters his shop to buy a book. Shortly thereafter, they accidentally collide in the street, causing William to spill orange juice on both of them. He offers his house (just across the road) as a place for her to get changed. Anna accepts and they repair to his abode. ...

Right from the start, their love affair seems to be doomed. Although Anna feels at home with his circle of friends, William more and more realises that he is not cut out to be a famous actress's boyfriend. First, he is shocked when he finds out that she has an American boyfriend (played by Alec Baldwin), although Anna asserts that they have broken up. Some time later, after they spent the first night together at William's flat, careless talk by Spike down at the pub results in a throng of reporters at their doorstep trying to take their pictures. She leaves in a hurry, and William decides once and for all to forget her. However, over the months that follow, none of his friends' attempts to find him a girlfriend is successful. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...

Back in England to make a film, Anna Scott shows up at his bookshop once again, hoping to resume their love affair, but William turns her down. Only after he has rejected her, and she has gone again does William realize that he has just made the biggest mistake of his life. He and his friends search for Anna before she can leave for the United States, and in one of the final scenes, at a press conference, he persuades her to stay in England with him.

The film ends with Anna (apparently pregnant) and William on a bench in the park.

Primary cast

Scene from Notting Hill; William (Hugh Grant) introduces Anna (Julia Roberts) to his sister Honey (Emma Chambers)

• Julia Roberts as Anna Scott
• Hugh Grant as William Thacker
• Richard McCabe as Tony
• Rhys Ifans as Spike
• James Dreyfus as Martin
• Dylan Moran as Rufus the Thief
• Emma Chambers as Honey
• Tim McInnerny as Max
• Gina McKee as Bella
• Hugh Bonneville as Bernie

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Award nominations

• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical (Hugh Grant)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical (Julia Roberts)

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Quotes

• Anna Scott: (trying to win the last brownie with the "saddest life" story) "I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade. I've had a series of not nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me. Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it's entertainment. And it's taken two rather painful operations to get me looking like this."
  Honey: "Really?"
  Anna Scott: "Really (points to her chin and her nose). And, one day not long from now, my looks will go, they will discover that I can't act, and I will become some sad middle-aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous for a while."
• Spike: "I'm just going into the kitchen to get some food. When I come back, I'll tell you a story that'll make your balls shrink to the size of raisins."
• Anna Scott: (referring to the Marc Chagall painting La Mariée [1] on William's wall) "Yes - Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat."
• Anna Scott: "Rita Hayworth used to say 'Men go to bed with Gilda, but they wake up with me.'"
  William: "Who's Gilda?"
  Anna Scott: "Her most famous role. Men went with the dream... they didn't like it when they woke up with reality"
• Anna Scott: "The fame thing isn't really real, you know. And don't forget, I...I'm also just a girl...standing in front of a boy...asking him to love her."
• SCOTT OF PANTARTICA - Sun Headline after naked pictures of Anna Scott are found
• William: Oh sod a dog! I've made the wrong decision; haven't I?
• William: Woopsiedaisy!
• Anna Scott: (after kissing William at the doorway) Probably it is the best, not to tell anyone about this
  William: "Oh, sure...I tell myself sometimes, but don't worry, I won't believe it."

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Trivia

• Bernie asks Anna how much money she made on her last film in the scene where they're at Honey's birthday party. Anna replies that she made $15,000,000. Incidentally that is the same amount Roberts made for this film.

• Upon release the movie was heavily criticised by some for presenting an 'ethnically cleansed' vision of West London despite being set in one of London's most diverse and multicultural areas. A situation somewhat similar to the French film Amelie's vision of a idealised yet entirely white Paris.^{[citation needed]}

• The soundtrack of the movie features an Elvis Costello cover of the Charles Aznavour song "She"

• Because of the park's private nature, film companies are not supposed to shoot there. However, in this movie a famous actress is shown starring in a film called "Gramercy Park," which was also the name of the production company for Notting Hill.

• The magazine Empire (magazine) makes a brief appearance. Empire lated placed this moment in it's "201 Things That Rocked Our World"

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