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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)

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Reviews Counted:20

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Rotten:9

Average Rating:5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: A group of Welsh villagers band together to defend their town's honor during WWI when an English mapmaker comes to town and declares their local "mountain" to be fifteen feet too short to qualify.... A group of Welsh villagers band together to defend their town's honor during WWI when an English mapmaker comes to town and declares their local "mountain" to be fifteen feet too short to qualify. The locals will stop at nothing to keep the befuddled cartographer in town long enough to change his mind. [More]

Starring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice

Starring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart, Kenneth Griffith, Jack Walters, Hugh Vaughn, Tudor Vaughn, Robert Pugh, Robert Blythe, Garfield Morgan, Lisa Palfrey, Iuean Rhys, Anwen Williams, David Lloyd Meredith, Dafydd Wyn Roberts, Fraser Cains, Harry Kretchmer, Howell Evans, Maisie McNeice

Director: Christopher Monger

Director: Christopher Monger
Screenwriter: Christopher Monger
Producer: Sarah Curtis, Sally Hibbin, Robert Jones, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Composer: Stephen Endelman

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John Esther
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Pleasant, but unexciting.

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Love hugh, the rest is passable.

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Josh Gilchrist
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Billings Outpost (Montana)

Irresistible comedy set in a quaint Welsh village.

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