Hope Springs
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Movie Reviews of Hope Springs
Movie Review: Funny and lighthearted.
Summary: 4 Stars
It's good to see Colin Firth in a comedy. He does a good job as the broken hearted artist. Heather Graham, guzzling alcohol wasn't a positive thing.
The owners of the Motel in Hope Springs were great! Mary Steenburgen as always is great. It's a movie you can watch ever so often and not get tired of it.
Movie Review: A Delightful Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Hope Springs is funny and entertaining. A delightful way to spend an hour and a half. If you enjoy a good laugh and a nice romance this movie is for you. I, personally, laughed my head off and found it to be quirky fun.Movie Review: Pleasant if unmemorable
Summary: 3 Stars
I can but assume Hugh Grant was unavailable or uninterested but he -the Brit actor of choice by studio casting directors- is conspicious by his absence from this movie .Instead the lead role goes to his oft-times co star Colin Firth who plays Colin ,a British artist dumped by his fiance Vera ( Minnie Driver ).He winds up in New England ,at the small town of Hope having chosen there because he likes the name
He sets about making himself part of the town ,sketching portraits of the locals and even finds time to fall in love with Mandy,played by Heather Graham .Then matters are complicated by the arrival of Vera, anxious to resume her relationship with Colin
This is a warm hearted and cute movie rather than a laugh out loud funny one .The script is undercooked and there is a paucity of genuinely witty lines or situations .
What you do get are some good performances from the principal players and nice cameos from Mary Steenburgen as a hotelier and Oliver Platt as thescheming town major
One nice running gag about Vera's endeavours to find somwhere she can smoke is about the best it gets on script level but the polished acting and air of geniality make it watchable
Movie Review: Fun, but with gaps
Summary: 3 Stars
Like many, I was attracted to this movie because of the cast: Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen, Oliver Platt. . .and to some extent, Heather Graham. Considering this stellar cast, I expected quite a bit. It was fun in some areas, but full of gaps elsewhere--maybe those parts weren't that important in this movie, I don't know. About the main characters: I thought Colin Firth handled his role as well as he could. He actually seems like a real person in this movie--emotional, heartbroken, spontaneous, fun--very far from Mr. Darcy of Pride and Prejudice and Mark Darcy of the Bridget Jones series. Minnie Driver plays Vera very well as an authoritative hoity-toity, almost to the point where she may be typecast. My experience of Heather Graham is brief. Her Mandy is rather mysterious in some ways; but to some degree, she brings out the fun in Colin Ware.
Granted, every one of them has done better work elsewhere, and are surely doing better work in future movies. If you need substance, then you might check them out. Yet, if it is enough for you to simply gaze at Colin, Minnie, and/or Heather, then this movie could be slightly more bearable.
Movie Review: so what if it's not Darcy!
Summary: 3 Stars
I agree this is far from Colin Firth's finest effort and I agree that Girl with a Pearl Earring is a wonderful movie but....Love Actuallly is one of his best. Why shouldn't he choose films that move beyond the stuffy uptight sexually repressed Darcy that we all love? I myself wish he would move out of the broken hearted dumped by a witch and cheated on by said woman and close friend. Having said that---this movie is worth renting or buying if only for the towel scene and the fact that he smiles in it....yes, smiles. He has adorable dimples. Check it out ladies. And by the way, my husband summed up this movie as "utterly ridiculous but amiable". He's a Brit.