Hope Springs

The movie perhaps wasn't all that brilliant, but it wasn't all that bad after all... It was actually fun. Fun to see Collin Firth making fun of himself, also Oliver Platt being pathetic as the head of the city of Hope... The chemistry was there. The script wasn't just superb, but the actors make it up to you. It's a change from the Briget Jones's Diary, where Firth has to compete with Grant to get a girl. The girls are competing with each other to get him for a change. I've enjoyed it. So has my wife. Good to watch on DVD on a late evening. It'll cheer you up.

Colin Ware (Colin Firth) finds that his fiancé, Vera (Minnie Driver) is going to marry someone else. Distraught by the news he goes to the tiny town of hope in New England, where he meets a beautiful young nurse called Mandy (Heather Graham) and both their lives begin to get better. That is until Vera re-emerges with a little surprise for Colin. There are better romantic comedies than this one, it's a little bit generic and struggles to do anything fresh or truly hilarious, but it was enjoyable and it certainly wasn't without its charm. Firth, Graham and Driver all deliver fairly typical performances, playing character types that they have portrayed before; and the direction is perfectly OK for a film of this type, all in all its a decent film that is mildly amusing, entertaining and heartwarming enough. 6/10