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I watched it a while ago and remember it being funny and light hearted in tone

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018

I am a big fan of Hugh Grant and this story feels and looks very original. I watched it a while ago and remember it being funny and light hearted in tone. The village has a large problem in the shape of a hill, but everyone gets together to solve the problem-. The best of the human spirit is in full display here.

Yes, there are accents that some of us may not be used to; but that in itself is not a good reason to give a low rating to a movie (as I sometimes see folks do here on Amazon). I love seeing pieces from other other cultures and I wish more movies like this one made their way to us.

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no subtitles or closed captioning

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2021

I love this movie and wanted to replace my VCR copy with a DVD. I was disappointed that this version did not have closed captioning or subtitles. I now realize that another DVD version had this feature...I simply did not read the details close enough. So, for those of you who do not need the captioning feature this version will do, but if your viewers require captioning, go for the other version.

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Boring, Tedious, Waste of Time

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

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Almost everyone in our home watching the movie fell asleep. We watched for 35 minutes and gave up. Very irritating characters and dialogue.

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athomp27

Don't waste your money on this feces

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2022

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This was a piece of crap. I have pooped more interesting turds. I've seen more interesting love stories between the flies that have landed on the previously mentioned turds.

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Could not finish

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2019

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I feel like I was tricked. I read all these positive reviews and decided to give it a chance, but it was so boring. I could not even get into it and didn't finish. I would say don't waste your money and time.

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Marygay H.

Waste of time.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2021

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Couldn't even get through 10 minutes. Didn't understand a word that most were saying.

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can't get it to run

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019

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Have tried to watch this video for over 24 hrs. I keep getting a message saying a problem has occurred try again in a few minutes. No help on help sight. Please refund my payment

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bigdippertiger

Great movie. Very poor audio/video quality

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2013

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I'm not going to comment on the movie itself. If you're considering buying the movie, then you must like it. I do too. This will be a short and simple review on the quality of the picture and sound and extras. Well, REALLY short in terms of the extras because there are none. As for picture quality, clearly this DVD was not made from an original master print of the film. Most likely, it's just a copy of the original VHS video that was sold just after the 1995 theatrical release. There is no evidence that anyone even remotely attempted to source a quality print of the film for this DVD. When viewed on a modest 52" Sony Bravia television, there was clearly visible pixellation that would not normally be present on a quality DVD sourced from a quality print. The sound suffers the same low-resolution problems as the video. The audio is probably just stereo format which makes no use of modern home theatre set-ups despite the claim that this DVD was released in 2011. So, buyer beware. Buy it you love the film but, for me, it's not worth the low resolution annoyances and overall poor quality.

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Robert Freeman

Pretty bad

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2020

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Pretty bad

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NuTime

I Love the Movie. The DVD Format Is a Bust!

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2017

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I love the movie, Hugh is great, and so is everybody else, the story is inspiring, the cinematography and the set design is enchanting. The problem is not with the movie but with the aspect ration of the DVD. You only get a stamp-size picture in the middle of your TV screen and that is so disappointing. I have never experienced such a thing and I have a vast DVD collection. They need to stop selling this and redo the DVD.

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Warning: LETTERBOXED

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2011

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The one star is not for the movie, which I like, but for the DVD itself. It's letterboxed, which means the viewer sees a small rectangle in the middle of the screen. The disk is labeled Widescreen, NTSC, with a DVD date of 2011. One would assume it's anamorphic (fills a 16x9 screen)--especially considering that there's no mention of it's being letterboxed. But letterboxed it is. I certainly would not have ordered it had I known this.

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Amazonian

One Star

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2016

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Not really a Hugh Grant type of movie.

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