- Film Review
- Reviewed By John Ferguson
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3 out of 5
After his egomaniacal role in An Awfully Big Adventure, Hugh Grant returned to the persona he does best - mildly bumbling Englishness - for this engaging slice of whimsy, which harks back (a little optimistically, it must be said) to the Ealing comedies of old. Grant plays a cartographer who is called upon to rule on whether a Welsh village's beloved landmark is a hill or a mountain; the canny locals are determined it's the latter and proceed to run rings around the hapless Grant. The plot is about as slight as the slope in question, but the talented playing of the cast (Tara FitzGerald, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart) makes it a modest treat.
Plot Summary
Romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Tara FitzGerald. South Wales, 1917: two English cartographers cause a stir in the village of Ffynnon Garw when they decree that the local summit is not high enough to qualify as a mountain.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Reginald Anson
- Hugh Grant
- Betty of Cardiff
- Tara FitzGerald
- Morgan the Goat
- Colm Meaney
- Johnny Shellshocked
- Ian Hart
- Reverend Jones
- Kenneth Griffith
- George Garrad
- Ian McNeice
- Ivor the Grocer
- Robert Blythe
- Williams the Petroleum
- Robert Pugh
- Blod
- Lisa Palfrey
- Davies the School
- Garfield Morgan
- Grandfather
- Jack Walters
- Thomas the Trains
- Howell Evans
- Thomas Twp
- Tudor Vaughn
Crew
- Director
- Christopher Monger
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