Hope Springs

Starring:Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen, Frank Collison, Oliver Platt, Mary Black, Ken Kramer, Chad Faust, Tony Alcantar, Bethoe Shirkoff, Alan Giles, Dolores Drake, Howard Storey, June B. Wilde, Susan Bonham, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Andrew Keilty, William Joseph Firth
Director: Mark Herman
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Hope Springs
Unexpected Gem
I couldn't stop smiling -- laughing...i'm in stitches
Dear God, it isn't that bad.............
Amazingly bad--- don't buy it, don't even rent it!

Hope Springs
Starring: Colin Firth , Heather Graham , Minnie Driver , Mary Steenburgen , and Frank Collison
Director: Mark Herman
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00015YVI6
Release Date: 2004-04-06

Customer Reviews:

Hope Springs.......2007-01-13

At first I didn't think I was going to enjoy the film, but it was very humorous. The cast was great.

Unexpected Gem.......2006-08-29

This turned out to have been written by the author who wrote The Graduate. It is a funny movie and Colin Firth is great as always, Heather Graham was at times annoying and I kept thinking she's too young. Minnie Driver was ok and in an unexpected comic turn. However, Frank Collison and Mary Steenburgen absolutely steal the movie - they are so funny and their comic timing is impeccable. Even the man in my life laughed at some of the antics Firth & Graham got up to especially the driving scene. It's clever and very witty.

I couldn't stop smiling -- laughing...i'm in stitches.......2006-08-08

I'm a Colin Firth fan, but that's not the only reason this movie was a great ride... it's because it is a great ride. Just enjoy...you will find yourself in stitches. The contrast between new england dry humor and Brit dry humor...// it's just too funny. Oliver, Colin you guys are the BEST!!!!

Dear God, it isn't that bad....................2006-07-31

I guess I am just not as discerning, not as sophisticated, maybe just not as bright, or with it, or movie savvy as so many of the others who have taken the time to share their opinion of this movie. They would lead you to believe that your brain might turn to mush, that you may find yourself sitting in a corner drooling, perhaps beating yourself around the head for wasting the time and or money to pick up and watch this film.

Well I'm thankful that I am not like them, because I rather enjoyed it. I have yet to see a movie that is as bad as they make it out to be. Granted, "Hope Springs" is no "Citizen Kane", but then again it is no "Crimewave" (a 1985 movie that I think is the worst movie ever made). If you go into a romantic comedy expecting what most romantic comedies are, a pleasant diversion, then 99 times out of 100 you get what you expect. If you go in expecting high art, then you are bound for disappointment. Most the haters said they expected more out of Colin Firth and Minnie Driver. Many actors have made films that they are ashamed to include on their resumes, but I doubt that this is one of them. I personally would rather watch a movie like this than your run of the mill Tom Cruise $300M blockbuster that makes $100M on the 1st run (Colin Firth is an ACTOR, Tom Cruise is a movie star). Maybe they would have liked it more if some lesser actors were in it, but then they only watched it because of Driver and Firth, so they probably would not have watched it in the first place, and we then would not be having this conversation. I better wrap this up, I'm starting to confuse even myself.

Bottom line, I judge a movie on how I feel when it is over, when this was over I felt that I had spent an enjoyable 90 or so minutes and was glad I had taken the time to watch. Don't let the sophisticates scare you off, it was fun.

Amazingly bad--- don't buy it, don't even rent it!.......2006-06-04

This film is unwatchable-- and the only question is what talented actors like Colin Firth and Minnie Driver are doing in this insipid hack job.

When it comes to dialogue, not a single word rings true. None of the characters make any sense at all. They are reading lines and getting into situations that are so dull, and so ridiculously unbelievable, that one wonders if the film were written by a group of typing monkeys who happened to hit letters that formed words, rather than a cognizant human being.

We couldn't get through it, as it was clearly outside the realm of possibility that the clueless writer-director could ever have his characters do anything that anyone else on the planet would care about. I see that view validated by the other reviewers with more persistence who watched this thing until the end.

It's amazing he ever got funding for this ultimate turkey!

Average customer rating:

Hope Springs
Unexpected Gem
I couldn't stop smiling -- laughing...i'm in stitches
Dear God, it isn't that bad.............
Amazingly bad--- don't buy it, don't even rent it!

Hope Springs [Region 2]
Starring: Colin Firth , Heather Graham , Minnie Driver , Mary Steenburgen , and Frank Collison
Director: Mark Herman
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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