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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783135687
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783135688
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 6407
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
He's a shy civil servant (Bill Nighy Love Actually) working for the British delegation to the 2005 G8 Summit. She's an alluring young woman (Kelly McDonald Finding Neverland) he meets at a cafe - and invites her to the Summit on a whim. Together this unlikely couple might just change history.Running Time: 100 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359282225
Amazon.com:
As a pop star on the comeback trail, Bill Nighy handily stole Love Actually away from his more famous co-stars. In BBC/HBO co-production The Girl in the Café, he takes the lead--and runs with it. Written by Richard Curtis (Notting Hill), the offbeat political-romance concerns Lawrence, a 57-year-old Londoner with a successful governmental career and nonexistent social life. One day he stops in a café and meets the mysterious, considerably younger Gina (Kelly Macdonald, Trainspotting). To their mutual amazement, they hit it off and agree to meet again (and yet again). Then he invites her to accompany him to the G8 Summit in Reykjavík, where she upends his carefully ordered world in ways both wonderful and terrible. Suddenly this 'man who has nothing in his life but his work' must find a way to make room for something 'tender and true.' With Corin Redgrave as the Prime Minister. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Very Moving Film
Wow. This movie was not what I expected at all. What a moving film. So moving in fact, that I cried afterward, then went to the www.ONE.org website to see what I could do to stop an African child under the age of 5 from dying every 3 seconds. Both actors (Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald) are superb in carrying off their characters personalities. It's a love story with a bold truth to it. I will definitely be purchasing this for my personal collection and put this at the top 5 of the most touching ... Read More
Rating:  - recommended viewing
The main actors (Bill Nighy & Kelly Macdonald) are splendid, and well cast. I enjoyed their performances, as well as the supportive actors'.
Decent cinematography for a TV movie.
A great script, with a deep political message which, unfortunately, is very true.
A decent movie recommended to all.
Rating: - But What Do You Do Now?
Beautiful little film, quiet, perfectly cast... a pleasure to watch... and entirely unforgettable.
The artwork and promotion of the film cleverly (I now see) lead us to believe that this is yet another quirky romantic comedy from England, and there's the ever quirky Mr. Nighy... and the girl you can't help but fall in love with no matter the role she plays, Kelly MacDonald... and there's the BBC logo all over the place so we know we're in for quality work...
And two hours later ... Read More
Rating: - Truly remarkable
It's been such a long time since I have gotten completely lost in a movie. Richard Curtis (Bridget Jones' Diary, Notting Hill) really returns to that delightful creativity he showed with Four Weddings and a Funeral to show a new depth and color to his writing. Beyond that truly remarkable screenplay, there's the truly phenomenal acting by Bill Nighy (what great fun he must have had creating his part) and Kelly McDonald as well as a haunting score Nicholas Hooper. David Yates pulls all of those pieces together ... Read More
Rating: - One of my favorite top films
I saw The Girl in the Cafe on cable TV and immediately fell in love with it. I had only seen Bill Nighey in Love Actually (which I also saw on cable TV) and couldn't believe that it was the same man. I recognized Kelly MacDonald from Finding Neverland and was impressed with her as well.
It's the story of the Girl in the Cafe that I fell in love with and I thought all the actors were well cast. I was surpised that it was by the same writer as Love Actually, as that is also one of my favorite films. ... Read More
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