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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

Drama · Comedy

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

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.

6.3(319) 5/12/1995 1h 31m
DramaComedyRomance

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.

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Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant

Reginald Anson

Tara Fitzgerald

Tara Fitzgerald

Betty

Colm Meaney

Colm Meaney

Morgan the Goat

Ian McNeice

Ian McNeice

George Garrad

Ian Hart

Ian Hart

Johnny Shellshocked

Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Reverend Jones

TV

Tudor Vaughan

Thomas Twp

HV

Hugh Vaughan

Thomas Twp Two

Directed by

Christopher Monger

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Reviews

John Chard

8/10

1/7/2019

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 English cartographers who arrive in the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw to measure what the locals proudly proclaim to be Wales' first mountain. However, it turns out that the "mountain" is 16 feet below the required 1000 feet requisite so therefore can only be classed as a hill. This news causes disgust amongst the locals, who then set about stopping the cartographers going home whilst they attempt to

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