A romantic comedy about a town that wouldn't give up. A man who couldn't get out. And the mountain that brought them together.
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
- 6.3
- 1995
- Released
- 1h 31m
Hugh Grant
Reginald Anson
Tara Fitzgerald
Betty
Colm Meaney
Morgan the Goat
Ian McNeice
George Garrad
Ian Hart
Johnny Shellshocked
Kenneth Griffith
Reverend Jones
Tudor Vaughan
Thomas TwpHugh Vaughan
Thomas Twp Two
Robert Pugh
Williams the Petroleum
Robert Blythe
Ivor
Garfield Morgan
Davies the School
Lisa Palfrey
Blod JonesDafydd Wyn Roberts
Tommy Twostroke
Ieuan Rhys
Sergeant Thomas
Anwen Williams
Mavis
David Lloyd Meredith
Jones the JP
Howell Evans
Thomas the Trains
Fraser Cains
Evans the End of the WorldJack Walters
GrandfatherHarry Kretchmer
Young Boy
Maisie McNeice
Girl in classroom
Nicholas McGaughey
Narrator (voice)
Released
en
- #wales
- #world war i
- #village
- #1910s
- #cartographer
Reviews
I don't want Ffynnon Garw to be on the map because we begged for it. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is directed by Christopher Monger and written by Ivor Monger. It stars Hugh Grant, Ian McNeice, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney and Kenneth Griffith. Music is by Stephen Endelman and cinematography by Vernon Layton. Set in 1917, plot finds Grant and McNeice as two Eng