Richard Curtis
Julia Roberts) meeting bookshop owner William Thacker (
Hugh Grant) while visiting Notting Hill, London. The movie follows the couple as they try to balance their relationship with Anna’s fame and stardom. Following the film’s release in 1999,
Janet Maslin wrote that “the movie has lots of glossy charm,” and it went on to win the award for Orange Film of the Year at the 2000 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
Notting Hill was added to Netflix this month, just in time for its 22nd birthday. The film found a new life on the streaming service, connecting with a whole new generation of movie watchers.
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Fresh From An Era Of Teen-Angst Dramedies, The ’90s Were A Rom-Com Fan’s Dream.
By Lori Acken, ReMIND Magazine
Romantics will never forget the scene that introduced the world to the uber rich, strikingly handsome Edward Lewis (played by Richard Gere), when he impatiently borrows his accountant’s Lotus Esprit and rips it around town only to get lost deep into Hollywood. When Edward observes a group of prostitutes who could possibly offer him directions, he pulls the Lotus Esprit over and rolls down his window, asking the quirkiest of the bunch: “What’s your name?”
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