Search - Notting Hill [Ultimate Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 07/17/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 2 hrs 4 mins Studio: Universal Studios Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Romance, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy, Showbiz Comedy See Also: Notting Hill, Notting Hill [HD DVD], Notting Hill [Collector's Edition] [With Mamma Mia! Picture Frame], Notting Hill [Collector's Edition] [Valentine's Day Packaging]

Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can -- at least for a while, it seems -- in Notting Hill. William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a house with an eccentric Welsh friend, Spike (Rhys Ifans). One day, William is minding the store when in strolls Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), a lovely and well-known actress from the United States who is in London working on a film. She buys a book from William, and she is polite and charming in the way a famous actress would be with a star-struck sales clerk. Their relationship would logically end there, if William didn't run out a few minutes later to buy some juice. While dashing back to the shop, he bumps into Anna on the street, spilling juice all over her blouse. Since he lives nearby, William politely offers to let her stop by his house to clean up; since William seems harmless enough, Anna agrees. When Anna has to stop back to pick up a bag she left at William's house, they kiss -- just in time for Spike to show up. A romance slowly blooms as his friends and family (not to mention the world at large) wonder out loud what he's doing dating a movie star. Notting Hill reunites Hugh Grant with producer Duncan Kenworthy and screenwriter Richard Curtis, who previously worked together on the international hit Four Weddings And A Funeral. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Julia Roberts - Anna Scott
Hugh Grant - William Thacker
Hugh Bonneville - Bernie
Emma Chambers - Honey
James Dreyfus - Martin
Gina McKee - Bella

Roger Michell's winning romantic comedy Notting Hill gets a double-disc special release from Universal Studios. The viewer has a choice of pictures; the widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and is preferable to the standard full-frame transfer. Closed-captioned English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1, while a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. Spanish subtitles are accessible. The voluminous special features include: a commentary track recorded by the director, producer, and screenwriter; a special featurette concerning the creation of the seasonal walk on the Portobello road sequence; deleted scenes; music videos from Shania Twain and Elvis Costello; production notes; theatrical trailers; and a humorous short piece from star Hugh Grant. Those with access to a DVD-ROM drive can access a script-to-scene comparison. This is an excellent release that should please the film's many fans as well as DVD consumers. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide