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Hope Springs (2003)

Hope Springs poster
Directed by
Mark Herman
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 171 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An English painter travels to a small Vermont town to recover from a painful breakup. He meets a local nursing home worker who helps him heal and open up to new love.

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What happens

Hope Springs is a 2003 romantic comedy film written and directed by Mark Herman, based on the novel New Cardiff by Charles Webb. The film stars Colin Firth as Colin, an English painter who travels to the town of Hope, Vermont, in the United States after a traumatic experience. There, he meets Mandy (Heather Graham), a nursing home worker who helps him get over his break-up with Vera (Minnie Driver). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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