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Hope Springs (2003)

September. 05,2003
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5.4
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PG-13
| Comedy Romance

British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy, a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera shows up with a surprise of her own.

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Matrixston
2003/09/05

Wow! Such a good movie.

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Evengyny
2003/09/06

Thanks for the memories!

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Comwayon
2003/09/07

A Disappointing Continuation

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Aneesa Wardle
2003/09/08

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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robin bonathan
2003/09/09

You by now should have read the plot and this does review does not contain any spoilers.It is a great film, has great acting.Good story, lots of twists and turns in it, very funny.Its a simple love tale, with a few surprises on the journey.I take this off the shelf every few months to watch.Same class as love actually, Notting hill, etc.If you are looking for an action film, go elsewhere.If you want a feel good film, this is for you.When friends come to stay, I show them this film and they all enjoy it.Don't be put off by some of the other reviews.

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Antoine J. Bachmann
2003/09/10

(warning: mild spoilers)take a simple but cute idea, the desperate guy abandoned by his fiancée, flies from the UK to the US (supposed to be Maine, but actually filmed in British Columbia), chooses his destination because the town is called "Hope", and on day two meets the cutest sweetest girl in the whole region, but also with a wild fun side so you don't get bored.add some pretty solid names in acting: Colin Firth (sure he was less famous then), Minnie Driver. Add a cute blonde who can act namely Heather Graham. In the "supporting" roles put actors of such caliber that they can do much better than just "support": Mary Steenburgen, Frank Collison, and of course Oliver Platt (who was nicely leaner back then).so, in theory, you could have done something bordering on the very good, cute, touching, powerful, and so on.but, unfortunately, the script lacks power, the direction lacks power, the whole plot logic could have been made both better and denser.so at the end of the day, we're left with a film which is fine to watch on a lazy evening with the wife, and has its cute moments - but could have been seriously better. Maybe it was too ambitious, too big budget a film, to good a crew of actors, for director Mark Hermann. Too bad.

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Wynn
2003/09/11

This is a charming movie. It is in places very funny. Minnie Driver, as always, is excellent, a joy to watch. Colin Firth does his agreeable Colin Firth impersonation and the American girl is fluffy and sweet. I loved Mary Steenburgen doing a vulgar part and Oliver Platt always adds vim. I rather think this is a movie for bookish people with a night off, but there aren't enough of those about. It doesn't fill the screen quite, but it is certainly a feature rather than a TV movie. I like the Anglo-American tint to it: there seem to be no glaring cultural gaffes. We even get Marks and Spencers mentioned. Intelligent, engaging and funny. 7 out of 10 because only God gets 10 and only The Third Man and Casablanca get 9.

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funzel_gap
2003/09/12

This must be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I watched it till the end simply because I love Collin Firth. It doesn't make much sense to me and doesn't make me feel anything. I'm kind of disappointed at Collin Firth's choice of movie. The character Collin in the movie was too easy to fall in love, well if it could be called 'love'. He didn't seem to love his fiancé as much as he claimed. I didn't understand the trick he played on his ex-fiancé at all. I must say it is a very shallow, boring, and incoherent movie and it was a waste of time to watch even though there was Collin Firth in it. I gave it 2/10 just for the fact that Collin Firth is the main character in the movie. I definitely won't recommend it to anyone.

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