SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Hugh Grant
DIRECTOR:  Ang Lee
WRITER:  Jane Austen, Emma Thompson

PLOT:  Based on Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility, Mr Dashwood dies leaving his wife and her two daughters poor making their marriageability most impossible.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Vanity Fair, Pride & Prejudice, Brokeback Mountain

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LOVE ACTUALLY

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson
DIRECTOR:  Richard Curtis
WRITER:  Richard Curtis

PLOT:  Following the relationship and lives of eight couples focusing on the subject of love.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Bridget Jones's Diary, About A Boy, Sliding Doors, Notting Hill

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NOTTING HILL

GENRE:  Romance/ Comedy
MADE:  1999
CAST:  Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe
DIRECTOR:  Roger Michell
WRITER:  Richard Curtis

PLOT:  When Anna Scott a beautiful and famous movie star from Hollywood enters a quaint travel book shop in the small town of Notting Hill things change for bookshop owner, William Thacker and Anna.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  America's Sweethearts, You've Got Mail, Love Actually

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BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY

GENRE:  Romance/ Comedy/ Drama
MADE:  2001
CAST:  Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
DIRECTOR:  Sharon Maguire
WRITER:  Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis

PLOT:  An awkward British woman makes it her goal, for fear of spinsterhood, to find love.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  About A Boy, Notting Hill, Sliding Doors

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ABOUT A BOY

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2002
CAST:  Toni Collette, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz
DIRECTOR:  Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
WRITER:  Nick Hornby, Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz

PLOT:  Based off the novel, About A Boy, is a touching story about a lonely 40 something bachelor letting a boy into his unemotional undisturbed life, a story about what it means to actually care.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Goodbye Lenin!, Bridget Jones's Diary, Persepolis, Jerry Maguire

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