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Clarence (1988)
Excellent
This was an excellent one-off series, starring Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson. Set in the late 1930s, it was a story about a short-sighted removals man and a house maid who move into a cottage together in the Oxfordshire countryside. This sitcom was funny, original and it's a shame that there were only six episodes made, and also that it was never repeated or made available on DVD or video. It makes a change to see a sitcom that doesn't reply on sex, violence and bad language to get a cheap laugh. If you ever get the chance to see it, do so. You won't regret it.
Notting Hill (1999)
Where was the passion?
*Minor Spoilers*
The plot was predictable. The characters were undeveloped. The script seemed to have been forced out of the writer; five minutes of Hugh Grant describing the contents of the fridge? It felt like a desperate attempt to make the whole thing longer than it should have been. Rhys Ifans had a few funny moments as William's flatmate, but his character seemed simply thrown in to give us relief from an otherwise boring and unpassionate film. I would only watch this again for three reasons: Rhys Ifans, Julian Rhind-Tutt (playing a small but amusing part as a journalist) and Shania Twain's song "You've got a way". And even those three together cannot make up for this film.