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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Mark Herman
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Actors:
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Minnie Driver,
Mary Black,
Tony Alcantar,
Colin Firth,
Heather Graham,
Mary Steenburgen,
Frank Collison,
Oliver Platt,
Ken Kramer,
Chad Faust
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(5.3/10)77.5
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Plot Summary:
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Colin's a sad-eyed British artist holed up in a rundown hostelry in skimpy-township Vermont after being dumped by his fianc?e. The lodging owner plays matchmaker and introduces him to a local girl. Romance ensues, even though Colin's ex may be looking to reunite.
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Tags:
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Hope Springs
Cloudy romantic comedy that fails to enplane any sport out of its wrangle between English and American attitudes.
Hope Springs
Hope Springs starts with a series of shots of Colin Firth, in transferral on planes and coaches, looking devastated and bearish. It's a face he does well. His type, British portrait artist Colin Ware, has received a wedding invite from his fiancée inviting him to her marriage to another man. Understandably distraught, he flees. Ware ends up in Expectation, drawn by the pinpoint of this tiny Vermont town. Ensconced in a hotel seep on the individualist Joanie (Steenburgen) and her husband, Fisher (Collison), he suddenly finds himself the recipient of the affections of Mandy (Graham), a local nurse. In a nonconforming locale, she gets drunk, takes off her clothes and throws herself at him. Hurriedly they're an article. Out like a light o...
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