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 enlarge | Director: Christopher Monger
Actors: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian Mcneice, Ian Hart
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 6922
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: D17591D
ISBN: 0788816861
UPC: 717951003287
EAN: 9780788816864
ASIN: 6305428557
Theatrical Release Date: May 12, 1995
Release Date: September 7, 1999
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 Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain January 17, 2008
What a delightful story. It shows the power and pride of a community, and how working together can accomplish a great goal.
 Hugh Grant never lets me down... September 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Hugh Grant and the English sense of humor which is why I purchased this DVD. I was not disappointed. While it is not quite what I expected on the romantic comedy end it is well worth watching and ranks up there with "Waking Ned Divine" in terms of the comedy and how it all plays out. A great movie I'd recommend to anyone who is a Hugh Grant and/or English film fan. Totally enjoyable.
 "SCIENCE IS DISPASSIONATE".....but not to a WELSHMAN! June 6, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
In 1917 English cartographer Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) comes to South Wales to measure the famous border mountain Ffynnon Carw for His Majesty's Royal Map. There is one criteria for a mountain to be labeled such: it must exceed a height of 1000 feet; if below that it is considered a hill. The mountain is the pride of all Welshman as it has protected them from all invaders throughout the centuries thereby preserving "ancient Britain." When the measurement comes in at 984 feet the Welshmen become totally unhinged. Their pride has been challenged, their very core has been shaken and they set out on a plan to add twenty additional feet to pass the Royal test!
Ivor Mongor had written a delightful short story by the same laboriously long title. The result has been Christopher Mongor stretching that simple story into a 100 minute screenplay that feels every bit stretched as the hill was in order to meet a criteria to film a movie! Love interests and subplots about the Great War have been added in order to fill out the time, but the result is a movie, that though very charming and clever, should have remained a "hill" instead of making it a "mountain." The conclusion of the story is inevitable, but getting there is as tedious as every bucket of dirt that the townspeople lug up Ffynnon Carw. Even Stephen Endelman's delightful musical themes lose their Celtic charm and effect as they are heard and reheard time and again as if he too was "stretching!"
Visually, the film is quite appealing as we are allowed to focus time and again on the majestic countryside of Wales. The colours and textures used are extremely vivid and pleasing to the senses; but one grows impatient with all of the "filler" material that drags out what was originally a very precise and well crafted little gem of a story.Lop off twenty minutes, get rid of nonessential characters and tell the original story and perhaps this film would ultimately "rise" to the occasion!
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain February 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is not Hugh Grant's best, but for anyone who has been to Wales, or know any Welsh personally, it is a great enjoyment. The Welsh are proud of who they are, their heritage, beautiful country and ingenuity. There is not much they would more prefer than autonomy from England, so they love to "get over" on the English. With that in mind ... ENJOY!
Delightful December 17, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a happy, feel-good movie, set in Wales, based on a true story. Quite enjoyable.
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