Background: In high school, my best friend and I would go on weekend movie benders—we'd go to her house in Grand Island, rent four or five movies, and stay up all night watching them. Sometimes we'd rent so many that we wouldn't have time to watch them all ... or we'd hit a dud that was too terrible to finish watching. The Englishman is one of those movies. I think we may have watched the first ten minutes or so and then turned it off because we were bored ... after all, we had something like Clueless or Cocktail to watch! (Hey, I never said my mom would have approved of the movies we watched ... that's why we always had our movie binges at my friend's house!)
I recently bought British Cinema Collection: 8 Acclaimed Films
from Amazon for $6.50. The Englishman is one of the films included, and I was excited to watch it—often, what I found boring at 15 I really enjoy at 31!Plot: When two English cartographers visit a small Welsh village to measure "the first mountain inside of Wales" for inclusion on a map, they discover the "mountain" is really a hill. The villagers aren't ready to let their pride and joy be relegated to a measly hill, so they join together to add the 20 feet necessary to the top of the hill to make it a mountain ... but they must also keep the cartographers in town long enough to remeasure.
Reactions: Well, I was right—what bored me to tears at 15 thoroughly delighted me now! I especially enjoyed the quirkiness and determination of the villagers. And Hugh Grant is always a delight as a bumbling Brit (does he ever play anything else?) It's a gentle movie that's perfect for a rainy (or sick) day.
Verdict: Keep
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