Notting Hill

Director: Roger Michell

1999 / 124min / DCP

An unlikely romance blossoms between a Hollywood starlet (Julia Roberts) and a rumpled London bookseller (Hugh Grant) in Michell’s endlessly charming, snappily paced romcom fairy tale, which marvelously plays to the strengths of its leads—Roberts’s winsome sweetness and Grant’s bashful appeal and sublime comic timing—while also benefiting from a memorable supporting cast, including Rhys Ifans as Grant’s brusque, slovenly Welsh roommate.