Notting Hill
Fri, Feb 14, 2025, 8:00 pm
- Fri, Feb 14, 2025, 10:30 pm
The Screening Room at Parade House, Parade House, 70 Fore Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8HQ
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NOTTING HILL (1999) Cert 15
Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers. Directed by Roger Michell. 1hr 59m
For Valentine's Day, a special treat. Even now, a little over 25 years on, Notting Hill stands apart as one of the best and most warm-hearted romantic comedies of all time. It's the finest by far of the trio of films - the others being Four Weddings & A Funeral and Love, Actually - which established the reputation of both Hugh Grant as an actor and Richard Curtis as a writer. But its greatest strength is the luminous presence of Julia Roberts in what is still her career-best performance, playing... well, herself. She is Anna Scott, world-famous movie star, visiting to London to promote her new film when she falls for shy bookshop owner Will Thacker, played of course by Hugh Grant. Despite rumours that they didn't get on in real life, you'd never know it from the delightful chemistry the two stars have together on-screen. It all looks like a relationship made in heaven until the media find out and threaten to ruin everything, especially when Anna's equally famous film star boyfriend (Alec Baldwin) arrives in town. Adding extra lustre is the film's superb supporting cast of familiar faces, not just scene-stealer supreme Rhys Ifans, but also the much-missed Emma Chambers and Hugh Bonneville when he was still stuck playing bumbling idiots. It's a total delight. Come and see it with us as your Valentine's Day treat and fall in love all over again.
Why not make a full romantic evening of it and join us for dinner before the movie? BOOK FOR DINNER HERE.
Please note that The Screening Room is located in the historic vaults of Parade House and is accessed only via a staircase.
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The Screening Room at Parade House
Parade House, 70 Fore Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8HQ
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