XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Paul Kydd
Available on Blu-ray Disc (Region B)UK/USA/France 2002 English (Colour); Comedy/Drama/Romance (Universal/StudioCanal/Tribeca/Working Title); 101 minutes (12 certificate)Crew includes: Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz (Directors); Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz (Screenwriters, adapting Novel by Nick Hornby **** [8/10]); Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner (Producers); Nick Hornby, Lynn Harris (Executive Producers); Remi Adefarasin (Cinematographer); Jim Clay (Production Designer); Nick Moore (Editor); Badly Drawn Boy (Composer)Cast includes: Hugh Grant (Will Freeman), Toni Collette (Fiona Brewer), Rachel Weisz (Rachel), Nicholas Hoult (Marcus Brewer), Isabel Brook (Angie), Sharon Small (Christine), Victoria Smurfit (Suzie)Academy Award nomination: Adapted Screenplay; BAFTA nominations (2): Supporting Actress (Collette), Adapted Screenplay; Golden Globe nominations (2): Picture - Musical/Comedy, Actor - Musical/Comedy (Grant)"Growing up has nothing to do with age."During attempts to meet available women, a shallow, irresponsible bachelor (Grant) reluctantly strikes up a friendship with the unhappy, misfit son (Hoult) of an eccentric, suicidal hippie (Collette), which is jeopardised when he unexpectedly falls in love.Not your typical British romcom, as the important relationship here is between man and boy, and what they learn from (and teach) one another, with a never-better Grant clearly relishing his newly-nurtured caddish ways first demonstrated in BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY.Collette also shines in a difficult role that could have been played unsympathetically, while the dual narration works well in this excellent, largely faithful (except for the ending) adaptation of Hornby's 1998 novel.Blu-ray Extras: None. ½ (1/10)
studioAT
While not being one of his three outings with Richard Curtis, this is still one of the films that Hugh Grant is best known for.When I first saw it I instantly dismissed it. Whereas 'Curtis world' is happy and jolly this film actually surprises you by dealing with some pretty heavy issues. The DVD cover makes it out to be much more cheery than it actually is.Grant gives a good performance, albeit one that isn't far away from any other role that he has played before or since. Nicholas Hoult gave his break out performance here, and has rightly gone onto other things.I can't say this is my favourite Hugh Grant film, or even the one he will be remembered for, but it's an interesting enough film.
Ben Kasica
I'm not quite sure why I like this movie as much as I do. It's a film that draws you in with its humorous but sobering, authentic and honest look at life, love, single-hood, relationships, and family. Grant does a brilliant job at making you love, despise and sympathize with him as he attempts to find love by faking to be a father in an effort to win over a girl. He learns more than he signed up for as he learns what life and love is truly about. I think every guy should watch this film as it encapsulates what our approach to life can so often turn into and hopefully will cause many to stop and think, is this really what my POV of life should be. The line "But driving behind the ambulance was absolutely fantastic" tops my favorite lines in a movie. Though not the inspirational nor blockbuster of the year, it's continued to be one of my favorite movies that I can always throw on and enjoy.
rachellewis-69720
We can say anything about Hugh Grant, but not that he is bad at his job. I believe this is his most mature, perhaps the best performance of his career. We see something that we did not have a chance to see before in Grant's career. We are able feel Will's progress from a completely hopeless eternal child, to the man who finally decided to participate in the life around him. Markus is a compelling portrait of all of us at some point in life, when we were so lost that, not only we did not have the answers, but we were not even aware of the issues. The movie is spicy, but not because they play on humor but because they are extremely honest about the people and their weaknesses.
